ALI funding amount?

[Maxine Baptiste]

Hi Neskie, this is Maxine Baptiste (Ethan, Zoey's Mom :-)) I have sat on the
committee to review proposals for ALI funding for FPHLCC that administers this
fund in the province of BC. The amount of ALI funding allocated for BC is
$200,000 for the 36 +/-languages in BC (numbers vary according to how 
dialects,
etc are counted). Projects are funded up to $10,000 per proposal. This is very
little compared to the millions spent on French language programming in the
public/private schools in BC as well as the rest of Canada. If you go to the
FPHLCC's website, you will see the amounts there as well as other funding that
is available. But, the other funding is also very little in comparison. Maxine

Quoting Neskie Manuel <neskiem at gmail.com>:

> Weytk-p,
>
> I'm working on a radio piece about language funding in Canada. I"m
> trying to compare the Aboriginal Language Initiative annual funding to
> Residential School Funding to see where it stands.  I'm thinking that
> the ALI's funding is much lower.  If anyone has any numbers to compare
> this would be great.
>
> I think the ALI's funding for language projects is 5 million dollars.
> I don't know if that's also their operating budget as well, then there
> would be even less for projects.  My big questions is are the
> resources that Canada put towards taking away our native languages
> being put back into revitalizing languages?  If not, then what does
> the Residential School Apology mean?
>
> I'm specifically asking about Canada, but comments from the US are
> welcome,  I know people in the states are facing the English Only
> movement down south.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kukstsemc,
> -Neskie