Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question for the minister is in regard to a presentation I heard from the AFN. It was their presentation about languages. They talked about 82 different indigenous language groups across the country. They expect only three languages to survive if we keep doing things the way we're doing them now.
There's been a lot of activity in the last while on indigenous languages, and it's really exciting to see. We've heard a lot of presentations over the last number of meetings we've had. Our witnesses all claim that investment in their language has to be on par with the French and the English.
For the English language, you can go to a nice facility with trained staff, and for French it's the same, but it's not the same when it comes to indigenous languages. In fact, I have an indigenous language speaker and instructor who walks around in the shop with all his material in a shopping cart and parks it in the janitor's room at night. There's no comparison.
My question is, in the government's vision, can we expect investment in the indigenous languages to be on par with investment in the French and English?