ALI funding amount?

[Neskie Manuel]

Hi Maxine,

Thanks for responding to this.   How are you doing?   Do you know if
Ethan made it down to Vancouver for my Dad's conference?

I didn't know that you've done that.  I'm looking to get funding for a
software localization project I'm working on, but that's for later.

I thought that the Canadian government gave pretty much nothing to
languages.  200,000 is nothing, especially given that Canada wants
native people to accept an apology.

Would you like to do an interview with me about language funding in
Canada?  This is for my radio show Friday Edition of Operation Wakeup
[1].  I'm doing a piece on Language Funding in Canada.

-Neskie

[1] - http://news.ckdu.ca

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Maxine Baptiste <mrb1 at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> 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
>