Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Northwest Territories would be proud of the achievements of a lot of our people, both in sports and recreation. We do have challenges though, as many Members have mentioned in this House, of having a fair distribution of opportunity for people, particularly from the small communities. So the one challenge that the proposed board would have would be to work to ensure that our

small communities and remote communities have fair opportunity to take advantage of the sports and recreation activities that are available to northerners.

Second, Mr. Speaker, is to ensure that we have representation from all of the Territories on the board, that all the people, whether they're from small communities or large communities, from the North or the South, also have a chance to participate and be part of the operation and decision-making on sports and recreation.

The third area, Mr. Speaker, is on decision making. It's sometimes frustrating for people to have decisions made for them by organizations that they may not be represented on. So trying to find a way of more fair decision making for all people in the Northwest Territories, all communities, large and small, North and South, remote and large centres, is the third challenge.

Mr. Speaker, generally, those are the three challenges that are put out to the proposed board. Thank you.