It is necessary. This is a demand that organizations and, even more broadly, official language minority communities have been making for years.
At the Société nationale de l'Acadie, for example, last year we had to go from four permanent employees to three. All costs are going up, whether it's electricity, heating, rent or travel. We have an agreement with Wallonie-Bruxelles International and with France, so we have to work on these agreements. I don't know if you've bought a plane ticket lately, but the prices make me want to pull out the few hairs I have left. The only place where we have any flexibility is in human resources. We can't decide to pay only half our rent this month. We can't decide to have an Internet connection only on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. So we have no choice but to cut back on human resources. I work full time as president, I have a low salary and my own business suffers as a result. That's the situation we're in. Inflation has not been recognized at all, not to mention past delays. What we're going through right now is major. It's even worse these days.
There are also societal changes on top of this. Statistics show that the number of hours people devote to volunteering is declining. Yet we need volunteers more and more, as we can't afford to pay our employees. Something has to give eventually, and the solution has to come from funding. We need to have that support. It's an unbelievable situation.