Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the department witnesses, and especially to the minister, for being here today.
I'm very glad to see, Minister, that you have been put in this role, because I've worked with you before and I know you are a person who will take action. After two years of Pascale St-Onge doing nothing meaningful to address the very serious abuses in sport, we definitely needed to see this change.
Some of the survivors who have spoken to me have expressed concern about the inquiry because they're worried that, if it takes 18 months, it will delay action. From the two committees that studied this, there have been a number of things we heard that needed to be done right off the top: the vulnerable sector checks for everyone, like coaches and volunteers; the banning of NDAs to protect perpetrators; the registry of offenders that you've already mentioned, and I was very pleased to see progress on; and the reporting of all sexual abuse to the police instead of having the organizations investigate themselves.
I heard in the announcement you made yesterday that the commission was not the only thing that would happen and that you were going to be taking other actions. Could you give us some idea what those might be?