At a million dollars a year, you would be one of the smaller NSOs out of the 62.
You see, this is my problem with the whole system, if you don't mind me saying. You have no money to fight anything. I'm sorry. You're in the bottom half of the NSOs. You're screwed. You have 121 boxers complaining, and you have no money to help them out. I've seen this with three-quarters of the sports out of 62 NSOs.
We were lucky. We got Hockey Canada here and we got Soccer Canada here, because they're the two biggest. Beyond that, you're in the bottom half and no one could care less about boxing until there's shit that happens, and that's what's happened here. This is where I'm blaming Sport Canada. It should have been flagged long ago. Funding should have been stopped. They don't do anything. They're like Christmas. They just hand out cheques and never follow up. This is a problem with this Liberal government. This is the problem with the sport ministers they have had and continue to have. Nobody follows up in Sport Canada. There are no consequences. I saw it when they were here. They have no recollection. They don't have to answer to anybody. It's disgraceful.
Sport Canada could have stopped this long before we lost Daniel Trépanier. This could have been stopped. We had one of the athletes here in April talking about this. This could have been stopped long ago, but Sport Canada is the problem. OSIC will follow Sport Canada and do nothing. You had to sign on because you needed the million dollars, or you probably wouldn't have signed on in late May. You were forced to.
What is your view? You're just getting into the chair, unfortunately, but you know where I'm coming from with Sport Canada. They don't flag a damn thing. That's where the problems exist with Hockey Canada and with Soccer Canada and, unfortunately, with the little sports like yours—boxing. You haven't had success at the Olympics, and funding doesn't come with that.
I want you to comment on the problems we've had with Sport Canada in this country.