I'd like to come back to what we heard yesterday at the press conference. The victims spoke up and they can speak up again because they still have things to say. It's the people on the other side whose testimony I would've liked to hear. They created the systems and are protecting them. The fact that the abusers were able to hide behind third-party investigations and use other mechanisms funded by national sports organizations tells me that the machine is in defence mode. The solutions put forward, in particular by Sport Canada, have created more problems than there were before.
How do you intend to protect the victims who'd like to testify before the commission? The victims were protected in parliamentary committee, but they won't be in the context of a voluntary commission. That's one of the approach's greatest weakness, as far as I'm concerned.
Will the victims be protected and will they be able to speak freely? I doubt it. The spotlight will be entirely on the victims, which will traumatize them anew, instead of being on the abusers and the broken systems.
Will the victims be protected from potential lawsuits brought on by their sports organization or their abuser? What of the non-disclosure agreements that they've signed over the years?