From the moment when Sheldon Kennedy sadly shared his experience and these policies were supposed to be put into place to protect victims and to stop them from being further victims, it would be useful for this committee to know how many times Sport Canada has actually stepped up and said to an organization, “You are not meeting your obligations.”
We are certainly hearing from organizations from more than almost a dozen different sports, where, as CBC has reported, people have raised concerns about sexual abuse. These things should be concerning to all of us.
I want to address the answer by the minister to my question last month just prior to this committee's meeting. I asked how many complaints had been reported to Sport Canada that are criminal in nature, and the response was, “Sport Canada does not have the capacity or expertise to determine whether incidents disclosed to it are of a criminal nature or not.”
We would all agree that gang sexual assault is criminal in nature. We would all agree that child sexual abuse is criminal in nature. Is that information kept in any way separate, so that when those statistics are reported, these allegations of serious criminal activity are actually reported as well to the minister?