Our cultural centres spoke about funding. We said $250 million, as a start, should be put into a language institute, which would then go right into the communities to help them rebuild their languages.
We have another recommendation that $1 million, as a start, should go into first nations communities as core funding for their languages. This funding would be start-up money and would increase on an annual basis.
That's a start. We know it's so important. The cultural centres are supporting 400 first nations communities and languages, so $5 million is not a whole lot of money at all, and we've been operating with the same level of funding since the 1980s.
It's proposal-driven; it cannot be proposal-driven. It must be core programming.
Overall, it would be $250 million as a base to start from and $1 million to each first nations community for their core funding for languages.