Right now, we have employees in different areas. We have a community manager in an area who might be paid $18,000 with no benefits, and who has been there for years. That happens quite a bit in our community. We need funding not to give humongous raises. We consider ourselves to be public servants for the francophone community and to be offering services that the government is legally obligated to provide. We are looking at equitable salary for our employees.
I have to say that the francophone sector is not the only sector that's suffering like that. The entire volunteer sector is, across Canada. We need more resources. We're so efficient.... Actually, we're inefficient. We're doing extraordinary work; we're being inefficient because of our lack of resources. We could be even more organized. We don't have time to organize ourselves. We're looking at making sure we have adequate funding just to provide the basic services, adequate funding to provide decent salaries for our employees. We're not looking at humongous salaries. Just decent salaries would be nice, and benefits to our employees, which we can't provide. And we're looking to organize and really be more efficient.
We're doing extraordinary work, and as I said, not just the francophones but the entire volunteer sector. But the under-financing is quite big.