Mr. Chair, words are fine but a commitment to high performance athletes means that the government needs to put the money where its mouth is and that money is not there at this moment.
I have a question for the hon. minister for sports. Diabetes and obesity has put Canada in the shameful position of being one of the OECD countries with the highest level of childhood obesity and the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
The Liberal government put $140 million into community programs to increase the amount of physical activity for kids. However, the provinces have said that cannot work unless they have money for sports infrastructure so they have a place to play and a place to do sports.
This government had committed money to that. The provinces are now asking where the money is. In the 2006 and 2007 budgets there was no money for sports infrastructure.