Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is again for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs following up on the same issue. I think that perhaps what has really driven us to this issue of contention is the lack of money that's available across the Territories for sports and recreation. We have lottery funding and lottery gross revenues of about $2.5 million a year. By the time you pay for the administration and so on, there's not a lot left that's going to go out to communities. As Ms. Lee has pointed out, part of the problem is that in the devolution from when it was all funded by government to when government said lottery revenues will be great to fund sports, there was an actual decrease in the actual money that's been going out to help organizations operate. One of the problem is we are going to now perhaps lose 18,000 volunteer hours per year. That's the equivalent of 10 full-time people. We can't start a new board, expect to get that many volunteer hours out of it and not see an impact. So how are we going to make up for the funding that isn't going to be there to pay for the equivalent of 10 full-time employees working in sport and recreation right now?
Charles Dent on Question 262-14(6): Proposed Territorial Sport And Recreation Board
In the Legislative Assembly on June 5th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Question 262-14(6): Proposed Territorial Sport And Recreation Board
Item 7: Oral Questions
June 4th, 2003
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