Thank you, Mr. Lemire. Thank you for your very kind comments. I really appreciate them very much.
It has been a long journey, over two decades, to where I'm sitting here today. It does bring me a little bit of closure on the journey I've had. I've worked in this space for a very long time. I've had to go the road on my own because of the experience I've had. The problems that we're seeing are being elevated through this committee review of what's been going on systemically for decades.
It really comes down to the issue around foreign interference. It really is the biggest issue. Really, a lot of the issues that we're seeing here today and we're talking about are things that have occurred because of it, when we talk about the autonomous system and the idea of the Olympic movement as being the foundation of the Canadian sport system.
The human responses that we're seeing and the impact on the thousands of traumatized athletes that we're seeing, many of whom have been witnesses here over the last year, reflect the problem. We now need to be talking about the issues of how we got here.