I have another question that I want to ask, so maybe I'll stop you there because I only have a few minutes left.
When I was on Oakville council, a young man named Andrei Adam, a grade 5 student, came forward and wanted council to devote money to build a basketball court in his neighbourhood. When we asked him why, he said there was no school planned for his neighbourhood and that it was not the same to play at the end of their driveways with a basketball net. This grade 5 student convinced council to dedicate the funding. I still tell kids that story, that you can have an impact as a young person.
What he wanted wasn't a structured program. He wanted a place where he and his friends could just go and shoot hoops. They could walk to the basketball court. They didn't have to driven to a school.
How important is unstructured play in ensuring that kids are physically active? The scheduled programming is great, but Andrei is a great example of recognizing in grade 5 the importance of being able to just grab your friends to walk to where they want to do the activity, as opposed to being driven, and just being able to shoot some hoops.
Adam.