Yes. I think something that's worth mentioning is the need for, again, accountability but also the appropriate capacity of those in boards and those running NSOs. At any level, to eliminate and address this, there's a need for interdisciplinary teams who should be undertaking these safe sport investigations, audits, inquiries and reporting mechanisms.
By interdisciplinary teams, I mean those that include independent sport governance experts; certified, registered mental health professionals; and human rights legal professionals. These kinds of people are crucial, but it is not common practice here. Advanced specific expertise is required to help with these kinds of assessments, but having a law degree or having extensive experience in governance or being an athlete does not necessarily equate to appropriate expertise in handling abuse and allegations in a trauma-informed, survivor-centric manner, especially if your governance experience is solely in a system that has been broken.
I think these governance audits will help determine the capacity and also help these organizations to evolve and realize where some of their holes are—for example, the lack of registered certified mental health professionals, the lack of ethicists on ethics committees, and the lack of sports governance and independent professionals; or, if entities are hired, they're not considering gender mainstreaming or intersectionality and don't represent that in their practice.
These are all current problems in the Canadian sport landscape. We can use interdisciplinary experts to help us assess these types of governance audits to make sure people who are running our sport are able to do so—