If I understand correctly, there may be less funding for the roadmap, but you are going to ask a lot of us. I hear the same thing time and time again. As far as resources go, they are already pretty limited. If we want to take things to the next level, and ensure that programs can be developed and that more and more people can live in French and speak the language, that people can truly live in an environment of linguistic duality, we must maintain our current assets.
I will you give you an example to show you what I mean. Ours is a national association. It receives $120,000 a year to operate. Of course, that's something. But we have an employee on the payroll and we bring people from across the country to take part in meetings. Every year, we hold one meeting, and sometimes two if we have the money. Our resources are already so meagre that we don't even have an office. We try to operate in a virtual space to save money. We can't even afford an office. So if we have to tighten up our belts further still, it would be quite a blow.
We must keep what we have. If the plan is to cut roadmap funding, then yes, we will try harder to do even more, but it will be incredibly difficult. That's asking a lot.