Thank you, Madam Chair.
I have listened carefully to Mr. Bittle, Mr. Champoux and Ms. Gladu, and it seems to me that this is in line with what we are doing.
It is time to ask the minister to come back to the committee. It's a bit of a reporting stage. We had a discussion with the minister this summer. Now it's a matter of having another discussion with the minister early in the year.
This is also part of a larger study, and in this way we will be able to talk to the minister about the Canadian Sport Policy and see the changes that have been proposed for months. It seems to me that this will allow us, at the same time, to continue to broaden the scope of the discussion around national sports organizations beyond Hockey Canada. Unfortunately, it is not the only organization that has been implicated in the safe sport crisis.
Asking the minister to come back to our committee and report on the actions she has taken, since all of these shocking announcements and events were made public last spring, makes perfect sense to me.
I'll be supporting this motion because I think it's good to have this report back. I certainly understand Mr. Bittle's concerns, but I think we can incorporate this motion into the larger work that we have to do. Hopefully, we can vote on it and get this in place. Then we, of course, will have that important committee discussion about how to build around the minister's appearance, for the coming months.
I think all of us work very effectively together, Madam Chair, under your leadership, and I appreciate that about this committee. I think we can do what Mr. Champoux suggests and what Mr. Bittle suggests and build something that will allow us to get to the bottom of things and to where Canadians want to see us go, which is to keep pushing on the issue of safety in sports so that young athletes, all athletes—regardless of what sport they're involved in—are in an environment that is safe and that provides the kinds of supports that we all hope they would enjoy. That way, they can practice their sport without any concerns about some of the tragic consequences that we've seen in the last few years.
Thanks, Madam Chair.