I want the federal government.... I mean, I don't want to propose to make recommendations, but I would recommend that funding be set up and that money be spent on these recommendations. Common Vision is great because it brought together. every sport minister across the country, except for Quebec's. Why can't we do that quarterly and report to see what's being done? Why can't they have to report to Parliament on what best practices are working? Why can't we make sure that there's funding for sports organizations, recreational organizations and community organizations that ensure that more children are involved in sports? We should fund research that shows why physical activity helps the mental health of young people. None of that is being done right now, and it's a shame, because everyone is so close to knowing that this an important thing to do.
The other thing is that they can break down silos and just share information. There are so many good groups doing so much good work, and a lot of them don't even know what the other groups are doing. Even if the federal government played nothing else but some role to connect all those groups together, I think we'd be better off now than we were six months ago or 12 months ago. There's much work to be done, and I'm not one who necessarily subscribes to the notion that “Oh, that's provincial jurisdiction, and the federal government shouldn't do it”, because it's not getting done. We need to step up.
If I were a provincial member of a provincial parliament, I'd probably be doing the same thing and saying, “Let's do something.” However, we're all federal members of Parliament right now. The job's not getting done. It's incumbent on us to do what we can, I think, to help that job get done.