Thank you. My comments are along the same lines. My concern is more so with organization. Granted that a lot of money is raised by Sport North, you do not see a lot of it being filtered down into the communities. The benefits are generally going to the larger centres. When you start to look at why, you could see that the larger centres are much better organized and have a lot more organized sports and committees and groups, and organizations. When you look at the Sport North budget going to the elite athletes, and it shows that it is going to the larger communities. They work to get it. Having said that, you look at the smaller communities that do not seem able to access the programs and the dollars from Sport North, and you will find that most of them are not organized. That is what seems to be lacking in this whole picture. I do not want to point the finger at Sport North and say they are doing a bad job. They are actually doing a very good job of fundraising, but the regions in the communities cannot seem to access the dollars. I think they need some assistance. Some of the regions who are organized and have regional sport groups are starting to draw down on these dollars. I think that all the regions should be setting up that way.
There seems to be a lot of people in the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs that dedicate a lot of time to Sport North. I would like to know if the Minister would consider dedicating one position in his organization, maybe program advisors, who would work strictly on developing regional sport organizations in the regions and work with the small communities.