Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses for being here today.
There is no doubt that hockey parents across the country want answers from Hockey Canada. They scrimp and save to register their kids in Hockey Canada programs. The revelations—not only the allegations of sexual violence and sexual abuse and how they are handled within Hockey Canada, but also the complete lack of financial transparency—are profoundly disturbing to Canadian hockey parents and profoundly disturbing to the Canadian public. That's why Hockey Canada has lost the trust of Canadians. That's why this committee has said in a very clear way that it has lost confidence in the leadership of Hockey Canada.
The way to respond to that isn't by pushing back and saying that these are attacks on Hockey Canada. The way to respond is by providing answers to what the Canadian public are asking, and I would like to see, over the course of this hearing, some answers.
I'll start with you, Madam Skinner.
You just said that the participants legacy trust fund is “not an asset of Hockey Canada”, yet we know it was set up by funds that were transferred from the national equity fund. We also know that it was Hockey Canada that went to court to alter the terms of the trust and to renew it until 2039.
Ms. Skinner, how can you say that it's not an asset when the funds came from Hockey Canada and when it was Hockey Canada that was actually going to court to extend the mandate of that trust?