Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I must say it is really disheartening. I've been a parliamentarian for seven years now, and I was the chair of the status of women committee. From the beginning, we've been trying to reduce and eliminate violence against women and girls. I was presiding over...all of the military sexual assault history, of years and years of a culture that has really.... We've still not seen much improvement.
To see Hockey Canada in a similar situation, with allegations from 2003 to 2018.... I'm not sure how bad the situation has to be in order to have three funds to pay off victims, but this is really disturbing. I want to say that you can't change the past—and I hope that people will come forward, survivors—but you can change the future, so I want to focus on the culture change that's needed.
My first question is for Mr. McLaughlin.
One thing that's very important is understanding consent. Anybody who hasn't seen the video out on YouTube called “Tea Consent” needs to go take a look at that.
Have you been through the mandatory violence and consent training that you mentioned is part of your action plan?