Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  We could definitely put together a complete wish list of what we'd like to achieve in our budget. We've never really had the option to be able to do that.

Health committee  That's a big question. Our budget this year to date is $1.6 million. Three-quarters of that has been generated by us through corporate sponsorship and through our own revenue generation.

Health committee  Our feeling on the federal tax credit is that it's great to see the government has recognized that physical activities are important. However, as has been stated a few times, it is a small step in a big picture of many activities that need to take place.

Health committee  Yes. That would definitely be a direction we'd recommend to the federal government. We've seen support from international organizations for physical education. I think it would be important for the Government of Canada to make the same recognition and to support legislation towar

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  We've established a quality daily physical education program that defines what an ideal physical education program would look like. So it sets the key criteria that a school would strive for.

Health committee  Well, we advocate for the program across the country. CAHPERD is governed by a voluntary board of directors who are physical educators and health educators, at all levels, from across the country. They've established these programs. The programs are promoted to schools. They al

Health committee  Absolutely. Yes, that's right.

Health committee  Yes. We receive our funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada. From time to time, we receive funding from Sport Canada. We also have a membership base, and we have a bookstore of school resources where we generate revenue for our innovations.

Health committee  No, absolutely. It's completely voluntary.

Health committee  If I could, I'll answer the question on information on what's happening across the country. The CAHPERD website has an actual map of Canada on which you can click on any province to find out what is happening in terms of physical education and physical activity within that prov

Health committee  The trends show within school environments that when physical education becomes optional, fewer girls choose to continue to be engaged in physical education, and that's part of the trend of the drop-off rates. We have developed resources around gender equity in trying to increa

Health committee  For the recognition award program, we do have a banner. And that is basically ISO recognition for a school. But that's part of the physical education.

Health committee  In response to the question of how much is being spent on physical activity, in the 1990s there was an investment by the federal government of about $10 million a year towards physical activity. Just a few years ago it was $3.2 million, and this year there was a call for physical