I agree with you. It's a major problem that's been part of all the work that I've done in Canada and have observed.
The funding that OSIC has, for example, can go only to the elite, high-performance athletes who are under the governorship and control authority of the national sporting organization. They don't have the authority to go any further.
There are some mechanisms by which you could develop a grassroots, club, provincial and federal national body structure and buy into a much better system than what we have, but that would have to come from the bottom up. It can't come from the top down. That's the problem. The top down doesn't have the authority or the jurisdiction. Many of our sporting bodies nationally don't get along well with their provincial.... That problem carries on all the way down the chain from there.
We should look for good examples of clubs, provincial organizations and national—there are a couple—that operate well and effectively, and try to encourage that. That's the way out of that problem, I think.