I'll only take a few seconds.
Regardless, Mauril Bélanger, who at the time was the minister responsible for official languages, made the same request. He told us that we had too many priorities and he asked us to choose one. Our priority is very simple, and it took the community 10 minutes to say that it was the Saint-Thomas Health Centre.
That was three years ago. Since then, senior officials have told us that they had the political will, that it may be eligible for funding, but that they did not want to create any precedents within their program.
So, yes, we can establish priorities and yes, we are capable of doing that. We have an entire democratic process in order to do that. However, those priorities have to be respected and the programs have to adjust to the needs of the communities. That is one point.
Furthermore, there used to be yearly agreements between Canada and the community under which joint committees worked with the government in order to establish priorities. That was then dismantled in order to avoid any administrative concerns. Now the community does its work, and Canadian Heritage does its own work and ultimately decides what is good for the community.
We are still trying to figure out exactly what the dialogue and these famous agreements with the Government of Canada mean, because over the past few years, cooperation has been very difficult.