Mr. Speaker, I can't confirm that at this point. We know that there are some athletes that have applied...Everybody has applied for their passport, but there are some athletes that the passport office has sent back their application and is requesting more information. I don't have a firm number on that as of yet. We are working on that. We know that it hasn't restricted the number of athletes from applying or taking part. This year in our regional trials, we've had 1,300 athletes take part. That's 200 more athletes than we did in 2004. We had five more communities take part this time around than we did before. We had smaller communities getting involved. I think there's a lot of things we could point to that are showing that the Arctic Winter Games are becoming increasingly popular. But as to if there are any youth or athletes travelling to Alaska without a passport, I'd have to confirm that later. We don't have that information as of yet. We are hoping that we're going to have all our athletes and all our mission staff with passports when they leave here. Thank you.
Michael McLeod on Question 394-15(4): Arctic Winter Games Teams - Change Of Rules
In the Legislative Assembly on February 14th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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Question 394-15(4): Arctic Winter Games Teams - Change Of Rules
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 13th, 2006
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