It's a great question, and it's actually a key question in terms of the overall philosophy of the organization. What we tried to do was give every province and territory a role in the Olympic Games, sort of on their own terms. When you look at our country, every part of the country is uniquely different from every other part. So what we wanted to try to do was embody the best of each region and the overall spirit of the games.
For example, our very first partner was the Province of Quebec. We thought at the time, in the early days, when we were still fairly naive and growing as an organization, that Quebec could do a lot to help us achieve our overall mission, and not just in the area of duality of language. It happens to be the number one province in Canada for athletes today for sport. They win the most medals at the games. We wanted to try to find a way to take the best of what Quebec could bring to the Olympics and bring that onside.
We signed a preliminary agreement with each province and territory, which was to be followed by a more detailed one that would focus very much on the things we would want to have from that region plus the things they would like to achieve for their own region. For example, it's not unreasonable to think that at the games there'd be a Quebec Day and an Ontario Day and a New Brunswick Day. There would be a lot of stuff that happens on those days that really features and profiles those areas of the country.
When we sat down to talk with New Brunswick, as an example, one of the things that struck them in our early discussions was that they might be able to help us with translation. It's a complex problem for us, because we don't have an oversupply in B.C. So we have to find creative ways to overcome that. Not everybody wants to come to Vancouver to work for two years and then not have a job. So we've been looking at ways we can take advantage of some of these services and opportunities that exist in some of these regions of the country. We want to bring them onside and allow each province and territory to be engaged in helping to deliver the Olympics on their own terms. Each one would look a little different. Newfoundland has a different reason for being there, say, than Alberta and the Yukon have.
As it's moving forward now--and we're not finished with this yet--there's a very good chance that this will be one of the very few events we've ever done at which every region of the country will have its own place. They'll have their own role, their own programs, their own investments in the teams, and so on. They'll be able to claim that this is as much theirs as it is ours. That was the goal behind this. It was a way to embellish this whole vision we had of making this about the whole country and not about a few elite organizers in Vancouver. It was bringing everybody onside.
Hopefully that gives you a sense of it. Many of these files are being worked through as we speak to try to make the best situation possible for us and for that particular region of the country.