Going back to 2008, and as the McLaren report outlined, we dealt with the sole allegation of his inappropriate texting at a national team camp in Vancouver. That was the process of that investigation.
With respect to what he was subsequently charged with, which came to light in 2019-20.... Those predated his time at the Canadian Soccer Association. He committed those offences while working at the grassroots or at private academies in British Columbia. In 2008, nobody was aware. I was certainly not aware of anything Mr. Birarda had done previously; nor—to my knowledge—was our committee aware of it. By the looks of it, neither were the investigators.
This didn't, unfortunately, come forward until the victims came forward in 2019-20, which led to the police being engaged and, ultimately, Mr. Birarda's being charged.