Finance committee  It's not much later. I mentioned the economic statistics around Ontario and health care costs. That's in the next 10 years. That's happening now. If you think about hospital wait times, they're.... It's completely unsustainable, economically unsustainable, now.

Finance committee  You know, we're actually doing great work in Canada. ParticipAction has formal agreements with British Columbia, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. I actually flew in on the red-eye last night from Vancouver, where we're doing some really great work. We're taking the federal money

Finance committee  It's an investment in the country.

Finance committee  The world has changed certainly and technology is here to stay. I gave you that statistic earlier about our kids spending almost eight hours a day, seven days a week in front of screens. We're trying to use screens for good as opposed to for evil. That is the fundamental point be

Finance committee  There's lots of controversy about the federal tax credit in terms of families and physical activity and sport. Some would argue it's not particularly effective when we're talking about lower income families. I think it's a great tax credit. It's helpful to many in the country, bu

Finance committee  We know that physical inactivity costs the country over $4.5 billion a year. That comes from Conference Board of Canada statistics. In terms of economics, in the short term, in the very current term, we know that if populations are more physically active, health care costs go d

Finance committee  There's no question about it.

Finance committee  We could.

Finance committee  Good afternoon, my name is Kelly Murumets. I'm the president and CEO for ParticipAction. We are the national voice of physical activity and sport participation in the country. I am absolutely honoured and thrilled to be here. Thanks for the invitation. For the next five minutes

Health committee  I think that the federal government going into the provinces and territories heads into very tricky waters. It is about working with organizations like PHE Canada and ParticipACTION that are national and fondly thought of by the ministries of education and ministries of health at

Health committee  We need to add, so that there's a third population represented here. For teenagers, ParticipACTION created Sogo Active. I started to mention this in my original introductory comments. Teenagers told us that they don't want their parents influencing them, that they don't want ol

Health committee  I had the same answer as Andrea as it relates to schools, so I won't duplicate that answer. What I was going to suggest is Active Canada 20/20. I'm not sure if it would be helpful to committee members, but it's in draft version, and obviously it's in English and in French. If th

Health committee  Okay, I will do that with pleasure.

Health committee  It's a very logical question. The metrics for success are different in each country, and the measurement methods are different in each country. However, the world is starting to align its efforts on this. The United Nations in September of this year declared childhood obesity to

Health committee  I have just a quick comment. We partner with Alex Baumann at Own the Podium. He believes our job is to create the groundswell of sports participation so that he ends up having elite athletes to choose from at the podium level.