B.C. is the leader in the country. It has been for a long time. Part of that has to do with more than 50% of indigenous languages being found here, but the provincial government has stepped up. It has added $50 million to the table.
The impacts have been, to use Blaire's words, exponential growth in initiatives and communities being able to step forward at the stage they are at. There is no one right answer for everyone. Some communities are at the stage of planning. They just need time to figure out what the right thing is. Other communities, like Blaire's, have their strategies figured out. Kahnawà:ke is the same. There are many communities that have decades-long immersion programs, so they need additional funding to better support the impactful things they are already doing.
The negative side, I would say, of the funding situation in B.C. is that it's so rapid. To go from nothing to all this money when we don't have that infrastructure.... This is what I was speaking about to the other member. We need time to develop, both nationally and regionally.