In response to your question, I would say that an amount of $12.5 million was indeed allocated to the Youth Initiatives Fund under the Roadmap. However, allow me to make one comment. The youth theme appears in various places in the Roadmap. There is the Youth Initiatives Fund under Canadian Heritage, but youth in general has enjoyed a number of initiatives. If you focus particularly on youth initiatives, it is true that half of that money has been invested in infrastructure. That has made it possible to establish a community school centre and other facilities. So young people have benefited from that.
The major challenge we're facing is as follows: of the remaining $6 million, $4 million has been allocated to this minority youth component. Not only were these one-year projects, but all the money also had to be spent in one fiscal year, whereas the Roadmap is spread over a period of five years. That's when the issue of ongoing resources and the success of those sustainable projects became a challenge for us.
As regards to the need to innovate, as Mr. Couture mentioned, a project in the youth network can run for a number of years without being changed. I'm thinking of the youth parliaments that have been around for about 30 years now and for which 75% to 80% of the clientele is renewed every year. So the activities are innovative for youth organizations essentially as a result of the changing clientele. As Mr. Couture said, by working with young people, we have no choice but to be on top of what's being done today. We have to be innovative and do different things, whereas the project itself can remain the same. That's a situation that has been experienced across Canada.