For us, certainly, more direct support for communities was fundamental. As I was saying, we have heard their heartfelt pleas. The way to ensure the vitality of language communities involves providing services by, for and with those communities. That will create and keep jobs in the communities, and it will develop that feeling of linguistic security that is so important for their vitality and their long-term development. As a result, the largest part of the $500 million in new money that we have invested will go directly to official language minority communities.
At the same time, we have decided to hold constructive discussions with the provinces and territories, especially in the area of education. It seemed important to us to obtain an accounting of the use of the money made available by the federal government in education in order to ensure that the money is really being used to support official language minority communities specifically. We have decided to keep that funding stable. As I said to our colleague Emmanuella Lambropoulos, we have also made sure that we respond to some of the requests, such as better support for recruitment and training of teachers of French as a first and a second language, and for infrastructure.