Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I'm going to speak more around financial investment. Obviously we're competing against other nations in the world. We always want to do extremely well and we are applying pressure on our federation, but we're still behind in terms of overall funding to sport compared with other nations, so we need enhancements to the funding for the national sport organizations.

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean specifically the sports in which we will be competing and excelling or, rather, the number of men versus the number of women?

Canadian Heritage committee  All right. In our case, we are going to have a large contingent of women at this edition of the games. I think this will probably bring the ratio to nearly fifty-fifty, given that we have a few teams that qualified on the women's side, such as in goalball and in sitting volleyball, but did not qualify on the men's side.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Basically, we have a number of ways by which to mitigate the risk, such as wearing bug spray, mosquito repellent, on an ongoing basis. Also, basically we indicate to them that if they're uncomfortable, they should wear long sleeves and long pants. It's those kinds of things.

Canadian Heritage committee  In my opinion, the most important thing is to provide all the necessary information to our sports federations so they can determine what might distract their athletes. Each person reacts differently to any given scenario. We really want to be proactive to make sure the team leaders have the information and filter it by analyzing all the inherent issues, whether good or bad, so they can manage their athletes as effectively as possible.

Canadian Heritage committee  Have have conducted our Paralympian Search four times. About 64% of our new athletes have come from these four events. So it has been extremely positive.

Canadian Heritage committee  Once we find out which disciplines will be accepted, we will develop an internal strategy to determine which sports we could promote to our advantage. Canada often excels in new sports. So we are trying to take advantage of these opportunities. For the Winter Games, for example, para-snowboard was tried out in Sochi.

Canadian Heritage committee  For the majority of sports, the athletes are already on the ground in Rio. We also worked very closely with the Canadian Olympic Committee for certain sports that are integrated, to visit the sites and become familiar with them, where appropriate. For these Games, we have invested much more in familiarization and visiting sport sites.