Mr. French and Mr. LaBarge, thank you for coming today.
As a child I had four brothers, and we had our own internal skate exchange in our house. There was a big box under the stairs, and on the first freezing day of the year, we'd all go down and fight over the skates. But of course our sizes had all changed. I don't think I ever had a pair of skates that actually fit in my whole life, because we were always doing the exchange thing.
I'm thinking of the fitness tax credit and I'm trying to do some math in my head. I think $1,000 a year per child now would probably be like $150 back in the early 1960s, perhaps; I haven't done it exactly. But if my mother had had $750 at that time to buy skates for us, or to pay towards a skating program or hockey or something, our activity would have been five or ten times more. So this is a very powerful program.
In Oakville the number one sport per number of players is soccer. We have 12,000 young people who play soccer...and coaches, in Oakville. They even had enough money to build their own indoor....
This is very, very powerful towards fitness. In your marketing programs, because you're part and parcel of those, I know, can you talk about results you've seen from the $500 fitness tax credit, and comment on how it might be more powerful, if you think it is, by taking it to $1,000 per child per year for programs?