Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in relation to whether we did any analysis of the benefits dollar-wise of volunteer efforts, I don't believe anybody has ever done this. But I'd just like to make a point here. We're not trying to get rid of volunteers. We know that sports and rec depends almost 99 percent on volunteer efforts. We don't see this as doing away with volunteers. That's not what we hope, anyway. One thing about all this, this is not a department initiative. We put it to the partners and this came back from them, the proposal for a separate board. I assume that they've taken into consideration volunteer efforts from the individual sport organizations. I'm sure they do. So we're not trying to do away with these volunteers. We're trying to make sports and recreation applicable equally across the Territories if we could. I might find out, for instance, that Sport North, even though it's a big outfit, it's still representing only 13 out of 33 communities in their make-up. On the make-up of the territorial sports organizations, 96 is Yellowknife and 66 is for the rest of the Territories. So there is a little bit of an imbalance here that needs to be corrected, and that's what we're trying to do. We're working with the sports organizations to hopefully accomplish this, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.
Vince Steen on Question 283-14(6): NWT Sport Board Report Recommendations
In the Legislative Assembly on June 9th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 283-14(6): Nwt Sport Board Report Recommendations
Question 283-14(6): NWT Sport Board Report Recommendations
Item 6: Oral Questions
June 8th, 2003
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