Excuse my laughing here, based on the great analogy my colleague uses, Mr. Chairman. I will just reiterate a number of points we raised yesterday in our appearance before the AOC.

Our involvement in the Arctic Winter Games, our position is that we would like to move the games from a two- to a four-year format after the 2004 Games which is going to be hosted in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

I think from that we will allow ourselves to develop other sports development across the Territories, including competitions, promoting the philosophy of mass participation across the Territories, establishing new direction of where we want to go in terms of sport, recreation and youth. I think those are the majority of our intentions in terms of the philosophy and the direction we want to go.

Relative to that, we are liaising with the president of Sport North. We are also talking to the Aboriginal Sports Circle and all the communities in terms of what they see as important in terms of the evolution of sports and recreation and the youth across the Territories.

We are hearing from those discussions. We are taking the position that yes, we do have to go from a two- to a four-year format so we can reinvest some of those monies back into not only regional sports programs, but also community. A lot of the communities determine their priority on sports and from that, we respond to the question of how as a department do we respond to those essential questions.

We said that we had put records and development officers in the regions. The question again came down to what is their functional role? We said that is to work with the community recreation directors, because the communities felt that their recreation director is spending most of their time fund-raising, running bingos, and not doing any work in terms of sports development or maintaining existing sports facilities.

We also talked a bit about where we should put additional funding as a department. We feel that we should put funding into the maintenance of the facilities. We put great money into the capital infrastructure, but no money into the ongoing operations and maintenance of those facilities. We should put more money into sports development at the community level. We agree that is where we should go.

We are also talking with Education in terms of trying to get them to allow the communities access to gymnasiums and other sporting facilities they own. I use, for example, ball diamonds. Many of the ball diamonds in the small communities are on school property. That is another area we would like to discuss further with them.

I think to summarize the overall approach that we are now dealing with the sports and recreation issue, we are also talking to Sports North about the composition of their board. I believe that we should have five members from the five regions and five members at large, with a president elected amongst themselves. So there are a whole range of new approaches we are taking. I think that is going to be for the betterment of sports recreation and youth across the Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.