I think part of what your question is pointing to is an extreme lack of infrastructure. That has not existed in Canada for indigenous languages. If you look at any other sector—fisheries, economic development, child welfare, housing—there has been a long period, decades or a century or more, of funding, people, good minds and offices that have been established. Policies have created a road map that enables people to work together and make decisions.
I think that at the root of your question, and what is important to point out, is that essentially what you're uncovering is this void, this hole we have created. Language has always been the poor second cousin to everything else. It's always done off the side of people's desks. It's tacked onto education. It's tacked onto this, and it's tacked onto that.
Not to put any words in Blaire's mouth—she's my close colleague—but part of it is what Blaire and other people are talking about with respect to this national body. Part of what we're fighting for—and this is in my written submission—is the time and space, as indigenous people, to build that infrastructure.