Thank you for that important observation.
Let me begin by thanking all of you. Yesterday I was notified that the sports allocation in the economic statement was enhanced quite substantially. For lots of years, we've been saying that more investment in sport reduces health care costs. There's a ratio that one dollar for sports equals $26 of health care costs. I hope this balance will sort itself out in the future.
To go to your question, it's a really serious issue, currently. As a new incoming chair for Hockey Canada on indigenous participation, I heard stories last week, and the weekend before we had our provincial championships in Alberta, both native championships and treaty championships. There were stories about exclusion, as you heard about this morning. There are more stories about negative impacts that are racial.
There's one arena, for example, I'm told, in which adults form a line in football. I forget what it's called. You have a line, and everybody tackles you, hits you or bumps you.
