First of all, I want to congratulate Mr. Angus. I think this is a very worthy study for us to take on right now. I want to comment, though.
Most of the comments we've made around the table have referred to hockey, because that is what's in the press right now. But I have played and coached many sports for about 34 years now, some at the national level, and concussions and injuries are things that take place in many sports. I'm very pleased to see that we're going to study all sports. Everybody watches Hockey Night in Canada; Canada is a hockey country. But we have youth being put at risk on a daily basis in many, many sports.
In the sport that I still coach this year, basketball, I can tell you that we're having more and more concussions happen simply because of the size, strength, and speed of the athletes today, and the human brain is no thicker than it ever was—in some cases. But the size of the athletes and their physical development is increasing.
I think we'll hear from many experts, if we bring the right experts in. We'll hear some good recommendations on how we as a government can support our sports associations in dealing with these changes in human physiology. I think that's the direction we should go in.
Hockey is not my sport, but I want to say that this is a factor in all sports, or most contact or collision sports. It's not just a hockey problem; it's a problem in all youth sports.