I fully share your concerns. For children practising a sport today, I'm going to make sure that I can work with the commissioner's office to ensure that it has all the resources required to deal with the complaints. We are expecting a lot of them. In the United States, where a similar case occurred, it took three years to deal with the complaints.
The $16 million in funding from the federal government is specifically intended to ensure that the office has the resources needed to deal with these complaints and break down the culture of silence. It will be a place that not only victims can rely on, but witnesses as well, to report cases of sexual assault or abuse in sport.
It was essential to establish the office because it will help to break the culture of silence and make Canada's sports system healthier