Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses here today.
My question is going to be for Mr. Subban.
It's nice to see you, sir. It's interesting. I was thinking that we worked at the school board together, and we worked provincially together, and here we are in this forum, so it's nice to see you again.
The issue you brought up is a very important issue, and I agree with you 100%, but I want to tap into some other expertise. I know that you were there building the sport strategy for Ontario. I know you're a successful educator, a principal and the father of three NHL players.
I'll just remind you of a little story. I don't know if you remember this, but about a decade ago I called you, because a coach called me. The coach had some problems. He had a young Black player who kept being harassed. The N-word was constantly being used. The coach called me and asked me to speak to him. I said, “You know, Karl would be better equipped to talk to this young man.” It's an issue that you and I have talked about many times.
With safe sport, racism obviously has a place in this conversation. We haven't had a lot of experts come in to talk about this, but could you, from your experience, talk about the current state of hockey, in particular when it comes to racism, if you're okay doing that?