Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I believe the Member is referring to a concern that was brought forward this year as the result of Sport North levying some penalties. I guess it should be clear that Sport North is an independent body; they are registered a society; they have their own administration; these are their own rules; these are the members of their partnerships. There are two types of penalties that are being levied here. There are penalties for late filing of their accounting and their forms and the general accounting practices, and there's also some penalties that are being levied as a result of performance. So there are two types of penalties that are being implemented here and, Mr. Speaker, these are the rules that the TSOs have agreed to have placed upon themselves; they agreed that they would work within the confines. There is a concern that some of the filing is starting to be a challenge for these volunteers. We're working with that whole concept to try and improve it, and through our Pan Territorial Sport Strategy we'd like to see if we can place some resources within the ranks of the TSOs. So far we've had one position dedicated to hockey; we have another half-time position dedicated to skiing. We'd like to improve that. We'd like to up that to maybe five this year. Pending the positive response from the federal government, we'd like to update that to five so that three more TSOs can be brought on stream with staff that can help them out; or maybe even more than five, I'm not sure, Mr. Speaker.
Michael McLeod on Question 27-15(6): Funding For Territorial Sports Organizations
In the Legislative Assembly on March 14th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 27-15(6): Funding For Territorial Sports Organizations
Question 27-15(6): Funding For Territorial Sports Organizations
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 13th, 2007
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