A national inquiry would definitely bring out some of these negative things that keep happening.
I saw the new Boxing Canada CEO speaking at the committee last week. He is a 10-year veteran of Own the Podium. He was their high-performance adviser. Those advisers were, unbelievably, bullying me, as a CEO of the organization, and also my staff. As high-performance directors, they cost a lot of money. I don't understand.
You're right. There is a revolving door. There needs to be more discretion, I think, in terms of where the persons came from, why they left the last organization they were with, and what happened in that organization. I talked about a CEO who allowed a sexual assault to basically be exposed in the most minimal possible way, because he was friends with those people in the car. He then gets hired by another NSO, by GymCan, and now we see all the problems at GymCan.
These people cannot just be quiet, because they want to keep their jobs and have organizations such as Own the Podium and COC rehire them and place them in new organizations because they threaten the CEOs who don't want to give in and be puppets. They threaten them with funding losses. It is an epidemic in sport right now.
The NSOs could actually help the grassroots level if they were allowed to function the way those mostly well-meaning CEOs would like them to function when they get into sport. We get bullied into focusing on medals at all cost.