Absolutely, and this is for a couple of reasons. One thing you have heard repeatedly from survivors and athletes who have testified today and over the past several months is that the organizations are, by and large, riddled with the same people or groups of people who have been part of the abusive system. To suggest that that leadership is capable of doing an accurate assessment or even has the skill and the knowledge base to be able to look at a structure, a policy change, a practice or a cultural dynamic and understand and identify how that plays into child and athlete abuse is just naïveté in the highest degree.
The people who have been part of the system or, frankly, who just lack the skill sets to be able to do that type of assessment cannot be in the position of accurately diagnosing what's taken place, so we have to get outside of that system, and the national inquiry provides you a way to do that.
Of course, it will need to be set up well. It will need to be set up so that survivors are safe to engage, so that proper survivor protections are in place and so that the team is trauma-informed. That team will need to have the requisite education and knowledge base to be able to understand athlete wellness and corporate structure, and some of these dynamics that we've heard and have recognized are quite complex.
Child abuse and athlete abuse extend far beyond what we think of in our child abuse protection policy. These are complex issues, and you need a team of skilled experts who have access to all of the relevant information, a team that is set up in a way that makes it safe for athletes to come forward. Until that process is done, what you've essentially done is looked at all of these organizations that have decades of bodies left behind them, and said, “We understand that you're part of the problem, but we also think you can fix the problem that you created.” That simply does not work.