Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just as an example of what we expect from our organizations in the area of sport with very little dollars, I wanted to highlight the efforts of Esteem Team North, which was recently created. It takes high profile athletes, some of them former Olympians, and tours around the North and have them present clinics and such to children throughout communities. They've managed to visit a number of northern communities this year. A group of five athletes going around with some staff from Sport North who are in Yellowknife, Inuvik, spent quite a bit of time up in McPherson and I think the MLA...I should know if the MLA, Mr. Krutko, was there. I think he was, anyway I'll give him credit even if he wasn't. I think Mr. Krutko was in McPherson with this group. I think there were also some presentations in Tsiigehtchic and Aklavik, and I understand they were very well received. I think they met something like 1,400 students, Mr. Speaker, on something like a $9,000 budget. What's that; $6 or $7 a student? We don't do anything like that in government, Mr. Speaker.

I think there's a real danger that we jeopardize the efforts of some of these organizations if we decide that we're going to gut an organization like Sport North. So we have to be very careful, and I think it's important that we fully analyze the situation, look at where we have successes and failures, be honest about those and seek to deal with that, instead of just adding another level of bureaucracy. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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