Thank you, Madam Chair.
I fundamentally disagree with the way the trust has been characterized in the media. In terms of trivializing or sweeping aside sexual assault allegations or other maltreatment, I can tell you that's absolutely not the case.
We've done a number of things as a board since 2020. We've adopted a national template maltreatment policy, which we distributed to all of our members. In June 2021, we started tracking incidents of maltreatment, including things like discriminatory taunts and insults under rule 11.4, and we are tracking that so we can better understand where incidents of maltreatment are occurring. We were doing that long before this discussion around sexual assault took place.
Just recently we've created a new independent and confidential mechanism to investigate complaints. This will improve Hockey Canada's handling of complaints when they do come forward. We also adopted an inclusive gender expression and gender identity policy that's going to benefit all of our participants, including transgender participants. We have been completely preoccupied with making the game safer and more inclusive for people, and putting in place systems that will allow us to better respond to these unfortunate incidents of maltreatment when they come forward.