Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Lemire. Thank you for your very kind comments. I really appreciate them very much. It has been a long journey, over two decades, to where I'm sitting here today. It does bring me a little bit of closure on the journey I've had. I've worked in this space for a very long time.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the issue we have is what we call the “autonomy of sport”, this autonomous system that allows them to work outside the civil system of law and civil society. That is really a systemic model that was been incurred by our integrating the Olympic movement into the design of our Canadian sport system.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's an honour to be here today as a participant in the standing committee's review on safe sport in Canada, as a recognized survivor by the International Olympic Committee, sharing my lived experience from over two decades on and off the field of play. My experience is about abuse, trauma, maltreatment, collusion, the use of wilful blindness, the lack of state responsibility, gross liability, brand protection and foreign interference, while validating the importance of civil courts and tribunals in Canadian sport to ensure the independent access to remedies.