Thank you very much for that question, Madame St-Denis.
First, sport was everything to me. As a young girl watching the Olympics and seeing those athletes do great things, I thought I could also do that. I got involved and was able to get a scholarship to go to university and study psychology.
I've always been drawn to things that challenge me, even today. I think that's the universal quality a lot of athletes who have been involved in sport have. The same life lessons you learn from sport about setting goals and motivating yourself and planning and working with a team are the same kinds of things we all carry in our professional lives. Sport has taught me those great valuable lessons.
We talked about athletes as leaders in many ways throughout the sport system because those same qualities are there. Whether you're leading a championship team or leading a business or being on a board of directors, all those qualities in sport are universal, and I think a lot of us can relate to that. That's one of the qualities the president was referring to. The universality of sport and those qualities really connect us well beyond the playing field.
I'm very privileged I had a chance to come to this country and have that opportunity to represent Canada and to be involved in sport, because it's given me so much. That investment we're all making in sport today is investing in all Canadians so they can have touch points to these qualities and hopefully through sport we will build better citizens and better communities.