In fact, that's part of what I was referring to.
We're very fortunate to have as an ambassador for something we call IndigenAction, Waneek Horn-Miller, to go out and talk to youth about the importance of how she became an Olympian and the level to which sport was important to her in her upbringing. She talks quite openly about how it prevented some of the other challenges in the community that she grew up in. The national chief really wants sport to be something we do a lot of work on. We'll have a national sports summit coming up soon to bring us together. There are a couple of national organizations, the Aboriginal Sport...and the other one I can't remember their name. They are doing some work in this area and want to bring together and coordinate a national strategy. There used to be a national physical activity and recreation strategy coordinated through the Department of Canadian Heritage through their sport authorities. What it didn't do, in my view, was to provide the funding to do exactly what you're talking about, to provide those outlets. If we had more schools on reserve we could use those gymnasiums to do those kinds of things and simply have programming to put in place. In part, that's the more holistic conversation we need to have.
I want to touch on something very briefly. I don't have a lot of time and I'm not trying to take it all. But when you talked about the importance of traditional healers and medicines and the different ways we approach things, often we speak in code. I don't even realize that we do it sometimes. When we say “local community-based approaches” that's really what we're talking about. It's the ability for an elder from that community or from a neighbouring committee to come in to meet with them to bring them together around issues, to be available for a specific kind of healing of this nature.
There are many traditional societies doing this kind of work. How do we cooperate with western-based methods? We hear a lot about people getting diagnosed for cancers, diabetes, and other things. It really works best when there's a blend of western medicine and traditional concepts. It's about merging them together because both have values and different approaches and each work for different people in different ways. When we say “community-based approaches”, because there are so many different cultures and approaches, it's the ability to support them to do what's really going to work best.