The needs are always growing. We mentioned in the presentations this morning that funding has stagnated since 1999. There was an 11% increase last year, but that nevertheless didn't make up the gap between current expenses and available funding.
Most of the funding of the Centre culturel francophone comes from our funding agencies, in particular Canadian Heritage, as regards the linguistic communities. We also receive minimal supplementary funding from Quebec, from the Canadian intergovernmental affairs secretariat, SAIC. Various initiatives of the Government of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver provide supplementary funding, but ultimately it should be kept in mind that we never have enough. As you mentioned earlier, this city has the largest concentration of artists in Canada, and there's chronic under-funding. I believe it was Michel or Yseult who said this morning that just meeting the basic programming needs of our organizations was enough to wear us out. We need the support of government institutions to ensure adequate service to our communities, to represent Canada's linguistic duality and to promote culture.