Our goal is not to purchase the property. Our goal is to work with the municipalities very closely. Our volunteers, all across our 729 clubs, go in and meet with the councillors, and they talk to them to make sure that the trails are where you want them, where you don't get any feedback. I encourage all of my volunteers to meet with the mayors, the reeves, the councillors, and actually go to the individual meetings on a monthly basis and ask whether they are getting any feedback on snowmobilers, and if there is something we can help with.
Our group works with your planning departments. They make sure the trails are where they are. Our group doesn't wake up and say, “Well, let's put a trail in the middle of the meeting room because we think that would be a great idea.” We would come to the meeting and say, “We need a trail here. Who do we need to talk to to actually have access through that property?”
Quebec has a fantastic program for making a trail and putting it in place. If you have a trail in a provincial park, and the parks people come to the snowmobile club and say they want to reroute that trail, for example, Quebec put a mandate in. They say, “You, the parks people, can have the trail rerouted, but you, the parks people, have to budget and reroute the trail for the snowmobilers because the snowmobile trails are seen as an asset.”
The volunteers bring an asset to each one of the communities all across Canada. What we're looking for and encouraging is the partnership to actually make them better—