Today,.people talk about three languages in particular: Cree, Inuktitut and Ojibway. Those languages have some vitality, but I do not know whether we have all the data we need in order to consider all indigenous languages.
The work that Statistics Canada does is important for indigenous languages, just as it is for the official languages. We have to know where the speakers are, their age, where they live, and so on. Once we have that picture, we can develop strategies much more easily.
In Manitoba, the Cree spoken in the north is different from what is spoken in the south. It is extremely important to really understand the situation. A lot of studies and statistics go into the consideration of francophone or anglophone minority communities. Over and above those data, there has to be a lot of thought, a field of research, to determine how we can advance the cause of indigenous languages.