I want to talk about sports and children.
Mr. Bird, your association has done a lot of work. I'm not sure who you represent in global terms, but I'm interested in terms of the sporting environment. There are never enough sporting facilities no matter where you go, whether it's the regions or big government centres. There's always a problem with not enough parks or not enough skating rinks. There's a lot of money being spent, especially in Quebec now with the Quebec government providing money for sporting facilities as well. There just doesn't seem to be enough.
The problem is at the grassroots. Sports are becoming more exclusive instead of inclusive. I'm finding that if your child is not a super elite athlete by the age of 8 or 9--and I'm going through that with my kids right now--then there's no future. When we need the kids to participate at the ages of 14, 15, 16, there's nowhere for them to go. I understand that we have to promote Olympic athletes and we want to promote excellence. What's your take on that? I'm seeing a contradictory thing going on in society today.