First of all, welcome to the committee. It's nice to see a new face.
I largely agree with my colleague on either a tripartite agreement or, as some other community members would call it, a linguistic clause. Ideally, a representative of the provincial community would be a signatory to ensure not only transparency in where the funding goes but also that where the funding is allocated is on par with and represents the priorities and needs of the community. Nobody else in each province is better placed to tell the province and the federal government where those priorities should be.
As it stands right now, with these bilateral agreements in education between the federal government and the provinces, the provinces are free to make up their own priorities as to where that funding is allocated. Often, when it is revealed where that funding went—because that's not always the case, as Daniel just said—we realize that the funding went to places that were absolutely useless with regard to the vitality of communities.