Masi. [Translation] When we look at education, our language, our culture and heritage, I wish that more Indigenous people would be employed or maybe some of the jobs can be transferred to the regions, specifically for this department. When we look at this, we look at who all speaks their language and know their culture. These are the people who should be employed, and it should be in the communities. Madam Chair, I am going to mix my language, in English and in my language, mixed, because sometimes there are a lot of young people who do listen to this session, and I will say it in both languages. [End of translation]
There are 59 employees within this district area division, and it would be easily empowered onto the communities and onto the regions with these positions. Everything is electronic, nowadays, and it would be ideal to have language-speaking people in these positions, as well. I'm not sure how many language-speaking people we have currently in these positions. I'd like to get that number, as well. I would like to see down the road -- it wouldn't happen immediately, Madam Chair -- the headquarters, there is always an increase in positions in the headquarters. We all know that.
There are 48 right now, and in the regional office, there are 11. That's pitiful. Down the road, I'm thinking five years down the road, if the Minister can agree to work toward that, it would be nice to have at least 35, close to 40, maybe, 35 at headquarters and 20 or 25 at the regional office. That number should be changed, and I for one would like to push for that even further. It should be our community experts dealing with this programming, especially the language-speaking people. We are talking about official languages. We are talking about culture and way of life, revitalization of our language. Here, it's all at the headquarters level. That would be my question to the Minister, if he would be willing to look at that, at least as an option going forward, and then I'll continue with my other question, Madam Chair.