Christina is an excellent example of what happens when we provide opportunities for Canadians with an intellectual disability.
I think it's important that this committee understand the enormity of our task. We have, in our sports programming, 34,000 athletes. We have 16,000 volunteer coaches and supporters. Those coaches are all volunteers and they're all trained.
Now, to put it into perspective, there's a population of over 700,000 Canadians with an intellectual disability, so as well as we're doing, we're addressing less than 5% of the population in terms of providing opportunities for athletes like Christina. That's the enormity of our task.
We're hoping that we can continue to work with the Canadian government. The government has been tremendously supportive of Special Olympics. On behalf of all of our athletes, I say thank you. But the enormity of our task is quite large, and that's why we're looking for incremental funding to take care of the team travel, so that we can take that back and give moneys back to the provinces so that they can do things--