Thank you for coming in, gentlemen.
I want to focus on what I see ahead of me, which is your submission. I found it very interesting and quite constructive.
I like what the incentives bring to the table and how integral the coaching is to many of our sports. We talk about programs such as Own the Podium and about programs that inspire success in Canadians, which have all sorts of spinoffs when somebody wins a gold medal. There's a disconnect with Canadians: to make that success happen, coaching matters. I know I'm preaching to the converted, but it needs to be put out amongst the general population that you lack support and that there are incentives, such as the tax credit for athletes to stay in. When parents have to volunteer to coach, that's all wonderful and grand, but the thing about it is that these parents are also volunteering to raise money—they have bake-offs and that sort of thing—so the expertise in coaching heads down the list.
The first part is very interesting. I'm from a totally rural riding. There's a to-do list—deduct taxes and all that sort of thing. It seems to me that you're saying this should be well up the list, and we have never really considered tax deductability, especially for that particular course.
But the last part is what interests me: federal-provincial cost-sharing programs. Can you give me an example? Federal-provincial cost-sharing programs to us.... It's a lot more problematic when you deal with a place like Australia, I'm assuming. In the United Kingdom, they just doesn't exist; theirs is a federal program and so on. You mentioned something in Service Canada that is a federal cost-sharing program.
I'd like you to comment first on the federal-provincial cost-sharing and raising the capacity to provide coaching education.