Health committee  The answer is yes. We need bold strategies to make change. Yes to prenatal education. Yes to banning advertising. Yes to taxes on sugary consumables. We work closely with a self-funded organization that has a website called activeforlife.com that is targeting parents, but it's a self-funded initiative.

Health committee  We would recommend multi-sector partnership tables at the community level to develop physical literacy for all.

Health committee  Just quickly, I would direct you to a research article, “Physical literacy of children with behavioural and emotional mental health disorders” by Catherine Fortnum and a number of other researchers. In that case, the conclusion was that, broadly, children with mental health diseases have lower physical literacy than children without.

Health committee  I concur with my colleagues in the messages they have shared. I want to go back to our opening message around the definition of insanity being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We see infrastructure programs going into renovating rinks and facilities.

Health committee  We're happy to answer that. As presented, I think the two key things we would recommend are, one, creating that multi-sector approach at the community level so that we have everyone around the table, including parents, schools, recreation, sports and health services, and, two, developing physical literacy.

Health committee  It's really hit and miss. It depends on whether or not there's a qualified physical education teacher within a school. In many jurisdictions across Canada, the majority don't have qualified physical education teachers delivering quality daily physical education. As you just mentioned, if you have a good PE teacher, then you're fortunate in Canada today.

Health committee  The key message is that we need quality programs, quality people and quality places to develop physical literacy in a multisectoral approach.

Health committee  I would close by saying that with regard to bullying, poor programming institutionalizes bullying. Without well-trained coaches, instructors and physical education teachers, poor programming is delivered, which institutionalizes bullying. I'll give a quick example. Dodge ball is a very popular activity within our PE classes across Canada, delivered by generalist teachers.

Health committee  There are policies and plans. We must act. This is where we need more communities to take a multisectoral community approach. As the old saying goes, it takes a village. What does a village need to do to activate the global and national strategies? We need to implement strategies that take this multisectoral community approach.

Health committee  I'll start, and then we'll go back and forth. Good morning. As mentioned, I'm Richard Way, the CEO of the Sport for Life Society.

Health committee  I'll start with the definition of insanity, which is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I know the committee's been thrown a lot of different statistics, so we'll throw in that today, less than 9% of school-aged children meet the recommended guidelines of physical activity.