Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Auch.
I have to tell you, I was also playing ringette in Calgary in the seventies and eighties, so I'm wondering if we encountered each other back then, maybe on opposing teams.
For me, it was always a really positive experience. I learned teamwork, and I learned how to get better at sport, how to improve my skills. We had really great bonding moments when we went away as a team to different towns to play in tournaments. So for me, I'm trying to reconcile that experience with what is happening. I was never at the level where I was going to be an Olympic athlete, so I'm wondering if that's where this system breaks down and where the culture breaks down, when we're talking about athletes who are really at a higher level.
We're not just hearing from skaters here at this committee. We're hearing from all kinds of different sports. I'm trying to see if maybe there's a link between the abuse we're seeing in all these different sports. Does it happen at a later level, when we're talking about higher-level athletes? Is there a problem with how we're training people to get to that higher level? Is that where the culture breaks down?
Maybe you could opine a little bit on that.