Health committee  Thank you for the question. I think another opportunity is the renewal of the Canadian sport policy, which is just being drafted at the moment. An extensive process of consultation has taken place. The federal government has done a superb job on it. One of the big pieces in it

Health committee  From the sports perspective, one of the things we don't do very well in Canada is to orchestrate our sports and their physical venues in one centre. We have a hockey club here, a soccer club there, a swimming club somewhere else. In Germany, for example--I lived in Europe for sev

Health committee  You've raised a host of issues there. I'll mention a couple of them. One issue was the children's fitness tax credit, which was a very innovative scheme and the first of its kind introduced in the world. I know this is expensive, but I think we've seen the evidence that the take

Health committee  I can take that, because we compiled this table. Quebec does have a program of support for public health. We called the ministry, but they refused to disclose the amount they spend on that. So we're assuming that it's probably in the ballpark of what Ontario is spending, but the

Health committee  The number was taken as a notional amount to try to illustrate that if we took a mere 5% and reallocated it, we could do some quite progressive things with it.

Health committee  You are talking about a very complex situation, in which a lot of different forces are acting on individuals and their capacity to make rational choices. Some of the points about the way our built environment is set up are true. You look at the way video games have addictive co

Health committee  Thanks for the question, Mr. Williamson. Sport Matters marshalled some of that data on the spending on health prevention and promotion. I hear where you're coming from, and this has been the problem traditionally: there's always an acute and immediate demand to provide further s