It's a comprehensive issue. As I mentioned, our sector is made up of national, provincial, territorial and municipal organizations. We all depend upon one another to support Canadians to be active and to participate in sport. If one piece of the sector falls, then the whole system is compromised.
Many of the emergency relief programs that have been available have been supporting national organizations like ParticiPACTION. We are, obviously, very grateful, but when it comes down to the local level, that money has not filtered down. In fact, as you mention, in many cases governments are cutting because they have to redirect resources to other areas.
That will put significant pressure on the whole system because there are over 33,000 organizations, 71% of which are local community organizations. I should also say that 73% of all of those community organizations are volunteer run. They don't have large staffs to be able to find money or to go to sponsorship. If those organizations don't get the type of support they need to sustain ongoing programming, they will likely close up shop. This means we won't have those local organizations offering up programs for Canadians to be able to participate in, whether that's joining a hockey league or a soccer club. Those programs may just disappear in our local communities.
Not only does it have an impact on our ability to participate in physical activity and sport as Canadians, it really impacts the cultural social fabric of Canada that these organizations contribute to.