Youth Sports

WHEREAS youth participating in sport creates the opportunity for a lifelong commitment to physical fitness and the resultant health benefits that accrue from regular activity and many parents throughout our communities commit not only many hours of volunteer efforts to ensure the success of minor sports, but also commit in some cases hundreds of dollars in registration fees, coaching fees, and equipment purchases yearly; AND WHEREAS without the grassroots minor sports associations that flourish within our communities, Canada would be without any world class athletes with the ability to compete at an international level in events such as the Pan-American Games, the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Union of BC Municipalities advocate that the provincial and federal governments create a tax credit for parents who make expenditures on registration and equipment fees for children participating in minor sports.