Thank you.
I think what was confusing to many people was that, when Hockey Canada asserted at the last meeting that it did not know the identify of the eight individuals, it seemed highly surprising to many of us in light of the interviews that were conducted.
Let me ask a different question. One of the other things that I think many were confused about was why players were not required to co-operate at the time and why no sanctions were imposed on those who don't. On June 20, Mr. Smith testified that, “On the advice of our third party investigator, we were not able to impose sanctions.” That's presumably on those who did not participate.“They advised that we lacked due process for them.”
Given that Mr. Smith himself spoke to that and clearly waived privilege on that issue, would you kindly elaborate as to that answer, whether you spoke to them about that and advised that you could not require them to participate or not allow them to be sanctioned because of due process issue?