One of the objectives of our Provincial Squads Training Program is to place athletes on Canadian teams and thus to have the C.T.T.A. try to develop them further for international levels of play. The fact that the MTTA now has athletes on various teams has meant that the CTTA is selecting item for several of their athlete development programs.

For funding purposes, the C.T.T.A. must achieve Top 16 results at the Olympic Games and/or World Championships. The CTTA's high performance model traditionally has always included a National training centre in Ottawa.

The first of these was the establishment, in addition to maintaining the National Training Centre in Ottawa, of Regional High Performance centres. These centres were set up in Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver and, just last fall, Winnipeg.

The second initiative was the start up 3 seasons ago of the A Division of the National Table Tennis League: "The Butterfly Canada Cup". The third major initiative was the start up of the youth program entitled "Team 2008". All three of these programs are designed to compensate for the vast distances and geographical size limitations posed by the Canadian reality: "we are a big country with major distances between centres". All three bring Canada's top senior and junior athletes together on a regular basis for training and competition interactions. These programs benefit all of Canada's elite players as well as those of Manitoba.