Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We will take the Member's advice and work with that. I think there is a possibility there. The honourable Member also talked about Sports North Federation. I want to say for the record that this Sports North Federation is registered under the Northwest Territories' Society Act as a non-profit organization with a mandate to develop sports in the Northwest Territories. The Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs has delegated delivery of the following programs to the federation. This has been done in the past.
They support the volunteer territorial sport organizations. They work on the development and management of Team NWT at the various games, Arctic Winter Games, Canada Games, Western Canada Summer games. They also work on the development of coaches and other volunteers. They support community-regional sports programs and services.
There is also the promotion of health benefits of participation in sports and recreation. The funding for this organization, the majority of the operating revenue is generated from the western Canada lottery in the Northwest Territories. The Minister of this department delegates operation of the lottery to the federation through the Western Canada Lottery Act. This is how this arrangement came to be.
The community sports organization could apply to Sport North requesting assistance and funding for events like Super Soccer and so on. I think there is a need to better understand what Sport North has been set up to do and what they are doing. I think better communication among communities to see what the possibilities are there with this organization.
Again the question, if I understood the Member correctly, he is requesting the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs dedicate a position to work solely with communities to help develop their sports programs and services. I think it is something that would be a positive move. We will consider it. With the recreation sport partners in the Northwest Territories, going through the major planning exercise we did in Hay River in May, once the results come forward, perhaps it could be part of whatever plan comes out of it, to do what the honourable Member is saying. Thank you.