Since a number of departments do have responsibilities, it will definitely be possible for the committee to obtain the amounts spent by each of them. Those amounts don't transit through the Department of Canadian Heritage. I'm thinking in particular of what Health Canada spends on the Réseau Santé en français across the country. It's the same thing for Industry Canada. Each department could therefore present what it spends specifically in the context of its positive measures to support the communities.
In the field, when we see that certain requests don't fit with the programs of the Department of Canadian Heritage, we try to find the department to which they are appropriate. At Canadian Heritage, for example, we work very closely, in the economic field, with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA). It has an economic development responsibility. If there is an economic development component for an Acadian community, we will definitely contact ACOA to send it a request that falls more within its mandate and responsibilities. I believe that people are increasingly aware of the fact that they must support the communities on a proactive basis.