Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, just a little bit of background on that. The driving force, the reason there is to form a territorial sports board was as a result of meetings that were held between all the sports organizations and recreation organizations in the territory over the last couple of years. It was as a result of some dissatisfaction expressed by community leaders, some Legislative Assembly Members, in particular from small communities as to the ability for people in the small communities to take advantage of the sports activities on a larger scale. In other words, smaller communities felt that they did not have the same opportunities as larger centres to take part in either territorial sports activities or national or international activities. Therefore, they were suggesting that there should be a different make-up of the Sport North board. They figured it was a little bit too heavy in favour of the larger centres. Those were some of the concerns expressed by local community leaders as well as Legislative Assembly Members. Now, as a result of this, the previous Minister set up this information gathering effort to see whether or not there were grounds to actually proceed with some form of new sport and recreation board. It was well recognized that in order to do this you would have to take some of the authority away from the Sport North, because they have the authority right now to distribute lottery funding, subject, of course, to the Minister's approval. It has been basically run this way for the last 25 years or so. Sport North has been basically the one that has been distributing the funding, based on guidelines.

This type of situation that is raising some concerns with Sport North members as to whether or not...