Mr. Speaker, at a time when we are cutting across the board and at a time when we are facing very difficult decisions, we increased the individual payments to athletes by 25 per cent. Last year we invested $20 million of the taxpayers' money assisting our athletes in what proved to be the absolute best performance ever at the Olympics.
I hope that with the support of the Minister of Finance, having turned the corner on some of our economic problems, that in future years we can build an even stronger national mandate for national sport as a nation builder.