Thank you, Madam Chair.
I thank all the members of the committee for welcoming me and allowing me to participate in this important study.
Ms. Pelletier, thank you for being here, and thank you for highlighting the work of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. In fact, you participated in their important study.
Everyone agrees that your organization meets a need. That said, I feel a bit like you're building an airplane in mid-air, without necessarily having made a diagnosis.
You spoke about the limits of your mandate with commendable humility. When it comes to sports, wouldn't it be appropriate that there be an independent public inquiry, to make a real diagnosis and to have recommendations on how to improve the situation?
I feel that the sports world is downright sick. Martin Leclerc's article this week, and previous articles by Rick Westhead and the media as a whole, tell us that things only move forward when the media raises cases that have taken place in the sports world.
I want us to give you the best means to succeed, but I feel that a real diagnosis should be made if we want to change things. The world of sport is sick, but putting a band-aid on it is not the way to cure a cancer and fix the situation. We need to know the situation in depth to be able to propose real measures.
Don't you think an independent public inquiry would help you have a solid foundation and take real action to transform the world of sport?