One piece of great news was in the spring economic update, which announced that there would be a renewal of funding for the multiculturalism and anti-racism program, which was otherwise ending at the end of the last fiscal year. A total of $66 million over two years was announced at that time. That's going to help us continue to invest in multiculturalism and anti-racism initiatives across the country. As you just heard, the vast majority of those involve small community-based organizations.
With respect to the anti-racism secretariat, that's also an organization that received some additional funding through the spring economic update. I'm not sure of the exact amount of funding there, but my understanding is that it is a couple of million dollars. It is an organization that was previously with Canadian Heritage and was transferred to Employment and Social Development Canada in 2024, if I don't mistake the year. We are currently working with ESDC with the intent of bringing the anti-racism secretariat back to Canadian Heritage so that it can be once again located more closely to the policy lead on anti-racism work.
The anti-racism secretariat's work is continuing. To the extent that I'm familiar with some of that work, they have continued engagement efforts across the country and internal to the federal government, bringing a framework of anti-racism to the work we do every day.