Thank you very much.
We do have the same goals when I look around this table, and hopefully we can all be on the same team. We do look at promoting both languages in this country. We're proud that we're one of the few sports with a full-time translator. We have an office in Montreal. We have a great partner in Hockey Québec, and we want to make sure that any time we develop what we feel are the best programs in the world in hockey, they come out in both official languages. That's a mandate within our board. It's a mandate within our day-to-day operations, and any time there is any type of comment on it, we feel we have a great partnership with Sport Canada. I think if you looked at their report card on how we deal with both official languages, it would be very good. I could let them speak to that.
The other thing is about winning. It is very difficult to win on the international stage. As every Canadian knows, we won the gold in the Olympics in 1952. It took us 50 years to stand on that podium again.
Over the last ten years, we've won more gold medals than this country has ever seen, looking at the women's world championships. Now we're at the three-peat in the world juniors. We've won two gold medals at the men's world championships in the last number of years. It's a difficult process, and I'm happy to hear the comments around this table that you support our team. We're going to be in for one heck of a ride here in Russia, but we want to be up to the challenge and we want our team to grow together. You don't win when people are trying to rip teammates away from that group. The leader of that group is so important.
In the programs we do, we try not just to lead in hockey; we want to lead in sport in this country in all of our programs. In our diversity program, our recruitment program, we have started to do more of that; we just had a very successful one in Toronto this last week.
When you look at the demographics of this country and who is entering this country, it has changed. It's not like it was a number of years ago, when every two-year-old got a pair of skates. We understand that. We want all Canadians to participate in the game of hockey and we're looking at different ways to recruit young boys and girls to the game so that they can have a positive experience and grow their individual lives from the sport--all sports, and in our case, hockey.
You can look at sledge hockey. I remember talking to my good friend Tom Scrimger, who said, “Bob, please; we need you to take the lead role with sledge hockey to show--”