For my part, I tend to question the entire Canadian sport system, not just the financial aspect.
Why not create a panel of stakeholders from various backgrounds and different layers of the sport system? We have to get out of the mode of dealing with the elite and national federations. Our support trickles down. Our local organizations and our athletes need to be heard. We need to be supported in this and there needs to be no stone left unturned.
As far as funding is concerned, there may be solutions we have not thought of yet. Earlier, someone alluded to sports betting, which seems to quite popular these days. Why would sports betting not serve the Canadian sport system instead of foreign interests? Why would there not be a national lottery to partially fund the Canadian sport system?
As for the non-disclosure agreements our young people have been forced to sign to date, Sport'Aide was outraged to find out about that. Whether we are young or not so young, when we are a victim of anything whatsoever it is hard enough to ask for help. If we are asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement to boot it is even harder. There is no need to spend two minutes in a victim's shoes to know what this means to them. I have not been a victim, but based on the testimony we are receiving, I can imagine the pressure of all this. We will put a stop to it.