Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we all know the Arctic Winter Games are coming up and that the passport issue was a big issue for a lot of residents in the NWT, especially the ones who didn't have money to apply for a passport. A month ago, it was a requirement for all athletes to acquire their passports to go to Kenai Peninsula. Last week, those who couldn't get a passport had a couple of options available to them in a much less costly manner than the original passports. Now this week, it's not even a requirement at all.
Mr. Speaker, a lot of parents and families in the regional tryouts who send their kids to these regional tryouts had to dish out $85 in order to get their applications submitted for these kids to actually get to try out in these Arctic Winter Games regionals with no guarantee that they are even going to go to the games. A lot of these families dished out a lot of money. A lot of families have two or three kids that are involved in the regional tryouts. The only guarantee is that they could get their passport if they dished out another $15. I wanted to ask the Minister responsible for sport and recreation what the government does to oversee the committee's work at the Sport North
level and Aboriginal Circle level to ensure that residents, when they are asked to pull money out of their pockets to send their kids out on some sporting event, that this money will be legitimately required and now that they have dished out the money, is there any avenue for them to get that money back if their kids haven't made it to the Arctic Winter Games? Thank you.