Thank you.
I'm very happy to hear your words today about how you want to make sure there is pay equity and equal support for women in sport, because the day we had them at committee was the day an announcement came out that there would be movement in that direction. I'm happy to see that.
I'm a bit disturbed. We received a brief that is currently being translated for the rest of the committee members, essentially from whistle-blowers who want name protection. The report is called, “Unequal and Unsafe: The Women's Game Under Canada Soccer”. There are a lot of ugly allegations in it.
What I want to focus on, which we've seen in other sports, is sexual abuse that was not managed well. As I'm sure you're aware, there were numerous allegations against a Bob Birarda in 2008. Subsequently, he was charged in 2022, in B.C. He left your organization and went to coach provincially.
I want to understand how it could possibly happen that there were these allegations against this guy, and the board knew it in 2008 and let him go to another provincial organization and continue coaching girls.