Yes, there should be something in place, but to be frank, there's always been something in place to monitor culture and language. What I think is missing is incentive.
If you think about a 22-year-old single mom, she has enough on her plate. She can't go to language classes. The proposal I put was complete with incentives. Everybody has the right to save their language. It doesn't matter if you are Italian or Russian—I shouldn't have said Russian—or first nations. Everybody has that right, but who has the energy and the incentive to learn it?
There are a lot of people in my community who want to teach the language, but nobody shows up to class. I think we're missing incentive. I have actually dealt with that language and culture issue for the last 18 years. My proposal was close to getting approved before I stepped down as chief counsellor and ran as an MLA. I still believe we're missing incentive. Make it fun. Make it enjoyable. Make it lucrative.