Healthy Active Youth Key Priority for Canada
Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers Responsible for Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation identified key measures last week aimed at increasing physical activity levels in Canadian children and youth.
Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs Robert C. McLeod represented the interests of the Northwest Territories (NWT) residents in discussions aimed at ensuring effective government support for advancing physical activity initiatives among children and youth.
Ministers endorsed the importance of after-school physical activity programs for children and youth and the continued importance of coordinating efforts to meet pan-Canadian physical activity targets established in 2008.
Minister McLeod says it is imperative that the GNWT continue to work closely with education and community officials to encourage more youth to become physically active. “As few as fourteen percent of NWT children and youth achieve the recommended ninety minutes of physical activity each day,” he noted.
The Minister also encouraged the Government of Canada to work with Provincial and Territorial governments to address the need for recreation infrastructure in smaller jurisdictions such as the Northwest Territories.
“Per-capita funding is not sufficient to improve available infrastructure needed to increase physical activity rates,” he said. “Future recreation infrastructure programs will need to include a base amount of funding.”
Under its Building Our Future Initiatives, the GNWT is working to expand programming for children and youth as prioritized by the 16th Assembly in its goal to realize a Territory of Healthy Educated People.
Topics: Canada, GNWT, Governance, Health Care, Northwest Territories, priority, pyhsical activity, youth
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