I was simply going to say that we could tell each other some long stories, but you only have five minutes.
Minister Moore was talking about his Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality before this committee two days ago. He said that the Roadmap was essentially the renewal of what was called the Dion Plan in our jargon. Under the first plan, MOUs were signed between the federal government and each of the provinces. Those MOUs concerned minority language education and second-language instruction. They covered the period from 2005-2006 to 2008-2009. So the MOUs have expired.
Mr. Moore told you that the MOU between Ottawa and Victoria, the British Columbia MOU, had been extended by a year. Under those MOUs, the extension granted to British Columbia leads me to say that people are going to want to negotiate extensions for every one of those MOUs to enable the parties to negotiate the second component of the agreements.
Under those MOUs as a whole, $656 million was paid to the provinces to provide assistance for official language minority education and second-language instruction.
How is that money being spent in each of the provinces? The MOU binding Ottawa to each of the provinces will determine that because ultimately, the projects and what they want to do with that money are determined by each of the provinces, education being a provincial jurisdiction. There's no money for that in particular.
As regards the universities, which may come under those MOUs and receive funding based on that, it's different. When we talked about a shortage of money earlier, for example, that would be to enable us to create and ensure the proper operation of exchange programs that would enable young Albertans to go and study in Acadia or Mauricie or students from Mauricie to go and study in St. John, New Brunswick, that kind of thing.