Canadian Heritage committee  I was going to answer your question with a question of my own. From where are we getting the professional coaches who are going to come into the schools? If you look at the programs, and again I'm going back to the four football programs in Saskatchewan, if you look at the foot

Canadian Heritage committee  When I think of the word “amateur” versus “professional” I see dollar signs. An amateur coach is doing it for nothing and a professional coach is being paid. There are no professional coaches at the high school level in any way, shape, or form. Somebody asked the question about

Canadian Heritage committee  On a personal note, yes. When I graduated from high school here in Regina, I went to the States on a football scholarship. The States do it so much differently in terms of the coaches there. As the lady asked before, they are more at the professional level. They are getting paid,

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to try to answer the question, as I understood it to be asked. I think that's the advantage at the high school level of having teachers involved in coaching the kids. When you have the educational component, much of what happens in the classroom can be translated and ap

Canadian Heritage committee  In phys. ed., I'm not sure how much that's going to show. I don't think the phys. ed. classes would necessarily focus on that. I think phys. ed. classes are primarily for the ideas of fitness, being involved, and long-term activities. As Clive said, he's in his sixties, and he's

Canadian Heritage committee  In the case of school sports, if a coach, and not necessarily the phys. ed. teacher—I think that's important: I know many, many coaches and they're not all phys. ed. teachers. One of the best high school football coaches I know of is an English teacher. It doesn't fall just on th

Canadian Heritage committee  Shall I go first?

Canadian Heritage committee  I thought you were asking Clive. I'm actually going to steal Clive's thunder here and talk about hockey a little. I have a friend by the name of Drew Callander who played with the Regina Pats years ago. He was big into hockey. He pointed out something many years ago and it staye

Canadian Heritage committee  I want to take a little bit out of what Clive was talking about. One difference I notice between hockey and what we have as sports in high school is that at the high school level there's not an emphasis put on the elite athlete. It's on the experience. It's on the multi-sport ath

Canadian Heritage committee  High school athletics are somewhat different. I think there are going to be some major differences here between educationally based sports, such as in high schools, and community programs, whether they be hockey, like Clive is involved in, or any of the other club teams as we'll

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. I'll start with my title. As commissioner of athletics for Regina high schools, I represent separate, public, private, and French school boards within the city. The affiliation I have is that Regina district is one of 14 districts in the province. It's primarily gove