It's very important for us to continue the funding with the Canada-Québec Entente. These are monies that directly support our educational institutions and allow us to support our minority communities. Of course, we would love to increase those funds, because as our communities continue to decline, the needs continue to grow. Access to services becomes even more difficult. We have a lot of challenges in getting those services out to the regions and in keeping our schools open.
As I mentioned in my presentation, our schools are not only the vitality of our communities, they are the hub of our communities. In many of those areas, although we talk about education, it's where the families go—not just the students—for their health and social services. It's where they go for their community networking. It's where they go for their sports. In some cases, it's the only place where the community can get an English book, for those of us still reading paper copies.
I would say that's primordial for us. It would be a consideration to continue to directly support our community learning centres, the CLCs. Right now, they're managed under Canada entente monies, but that would certainly be something that could be considered. These are often the lifeline and the lifeblood of those very rural communities. They allow access to distance education, access to programs and services, that they would otherwise not be eligible for or easily accessed due to their location.