Canadian Heritage Committee on Nov. 26th, 2013

Evidence of meeting #5 for Canadian Heritage in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was sport.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Canada's Preparations for the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi

MPs speaking

Gord Brown
Jim Hillyer
Matthew Dubé
Stéphane Dion
Ray Boughen
Pierre Nantel
Irene Mathyssen
François Lapointe
Terence Young
Rick Dykstra
Blake Richards
Chungsen Leung

Also speaking

Christopher Lindsay  Director, High Performance, Biathlon Canada
Steven Hills  Executive Director, Canada Snowboard Federation
JD Miller  President, B2ten
Ian Moss  Chief Executive Officer, Speed Skating Canada
Daniel Thompson  Chief Executive Officer, Skate Canada
Elizabeth Manley-Theobald  Olympic Silver Medalist, Skate Canada
Tim Farstad  Executive Director, Canadian Luge Association

10:45 a.m.

Chief Executive Officer, Skate Canada

Daniel Thompson

May I make one comment, or...no?

10:45 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gord Brown

You can have 15 seconds.

10:45 a.m.

Chief Executive Officer, Skate Canada

Daniel Thompson

Okay.

I think we do need to stimulate more, to get more boys into figure skating. Our CanSkate program is 75% girls and 25% boys. We want to attract more boys to the sport of skating.

10:45 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gord Brown

All right. That's the last word.

Thank you very much to our witnesses.

The meeting is adjourned.