You identified one of those big challenges. In a country as large as ours with as many sports as we have at the national, the provincial, the territorial and the community levels, there are a lot of challenges. Alignment is one of those, where it's trying to get.... Once you have a policy consistently making it through the system and across the country to the different sports, I think that becomes one of those biggest pieces.
When it comes to communication, people and organizations receive information differently, and there are different players. You need to have some of those consistent baselines, which is what you referred to.
Having a consistent policy is that first step. At least everyone has the rules and the policies that go in place. Those basic rules and those policies should be across the board. From there, it goes to the education. It's no good having a policy that just sits on a shelf. It needs to be shared with all the members, all the people within any of the organizations and across all of them. Then it needs to be evaluated and continued—that reinforcement.
If you're looking at those different stages, you have to have that baseline that we all have as a minimum standard. Then we need to really focus on communication, and it needs to be relevant to that sport and that region, whether it's our territories or B.C. or anywhere. For athletes, for parents and for board members, there are different types of communication. Communication is critical to keeping that messaging consistent so that it's repeated over and over again. Hearing it once is not enough. It has to come different ways so it makes sense. Then it has to be evaluated. Is it working? This is a whole dynamic process. What's working and what's not? Take the lesson and then reapply it. I think those are key.