I agree with you. There's a lot of need for change.
Thank you so much.
I want to move to Ms. Sandmeyer-Graves.
I am a former minister of sport for Ontario. Back in 2016, the Ontario government put together a provincial strategy for sport. I was astonished by some of the statistics that came out of that. In fact, I went back to the publication that was presented six or seven years ago. I was just astonished that at the NCCP, for level five, 89% of coaches in our province of Ontario were male and 11% were female. I remember someone telling us about the statistics for women athletes and the coaches they had at the winter Olympics. The numbers were similar to that. There were something like 10% female coaches and 90% male coaches, even for the female athletes.
I don't think anyone would question the fact that the more female coaches there are in the system, the more empowering and role modelling there would be and the stronger the overall system would become.
Do you have any advice for this committee on what the federal government should be doing to encourage young women to remain in sport longer? I know their retention rate is much lower than that for males. Also, on how to develop even further leadership for female role models and female coaches within the system, do you have any advice for us?