Canadian Heritage committee  It touches all indigenous people.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm including everybody in this, Mr. Shields, just for you to be comfortable.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's all indigenous people, and I've been very clear since the beginning.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can take it out and read the speech again if you want.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question. Adequate for me is what's necessary to succeed. That is my definition of adequate. Adequate and predictable long term is a direct response to a call to action.

Canadian Heritage committee  You're right. In all our discussions with indigenous peoples, they said, and rightly so, that they don't want to go on a per-project funding basis. They have to submit, and they need the resources to prepare the project. Then they need the resources to prepare a report, and then

Canadian Heritage committee  It's going to be funding that will be available for this bill that will be based on everything that the bill sets out to do. Again, the bill could be exactly as it is now, or it could be amended by you.

Canadian Heritage committee  Such is the case. It depends.

Canadian Heritage committee  Those are based on the priorities by the different groups, by the different communities: on their needs, on the number of people who still speak the language, on what they need in terms of schools, education, classes, books, whatever. All of that will be prepared together, but th

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. Thank you for the question.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a very important question. It became very clear from day one that there are different needs for different languages and different groups and we had to have a bill that would be flexible enough to take that into consideration. The other thing that was clear for us from day o

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's an excellent question and a question that I asked the team also. How are we going to be able to reach all these people we want to reach out to and all the people who want to participate in this? How will we elaborate the actions with the different national groups? By sitti