Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am glad the Minister pointed out that there is a new allocation just for that specific area for growth in our aboriginal languages. I see on page 9-21 there is further discussion on official languages, so I will leave my discussions for that page.
I do want to address our support for culture and the arts. It's something that has grown in the Nahendeh region and Fort Simpson. We have good organizations there where they have lots of good initiatives. They have Open Sky which originally started as a festival on a yearly basis, but now they've grown to where they are a year-round organization providing and stimulating arts and culture in Fort Simpson and for the region.
One of the barriers that we are facing lately is that even though there is lots of accessible funding, they are finding that getting funding for their organization as a non-government organization for O and M, which was to keep the organization funding, we are having barriers getting that. I don't know if we have specific funding for O and M for such an organization, but I see there is lots of programming funding and, quite often, if you get the right manager, they can keep things going by applying to 20 different funding proposals and garnering enough money out of each of them to pay his or her salary. That's not really supporting or stimulating growth for arts and culture for any organization. I am just wondering if the Minister has looked at that gap there and seen what kind of funding would be available to a group, an organization, in terms of helping it continue to foster arts and culture in their specific regions and providing O and M funding for their specific organization. With that, Mr. Chair.