Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Peace River for working hard to ensure that budget 2006 contained measures to help families.
During the election campaign, we made commitments to create a $500 tax credit to help parents with their children's sports and physical fitness fees. Budget 2006 delivers on this commitment.
Effective January 1 next year, parents can claim these fees. This will put $160 million into community level children's sports and physical fitness. That is an average of $500,000 per riding. This is great news for Canadian children, great news for the sport community and great news for Canada.