I think Sport Canada should be intervening. It's the money of the federal government that is.... Many of the sports, specifically speed skating, function at a high percentage with federal funds. They just wouldn't support.... I'd call and try to get help with the intervening that OTP did, and frankly, it's excessive to have an overlap of two organizations. It causes more bureaucracy and just isn't necessary.
No, I never had any success in going to Sport Canada directly to try to get it to support me in letting me run the organization, which is a fully independent organization, a corporation. It's not part of Own the Podium, the Canadian Olympic Committee, or Sport Canada for that matter. We do answer to Sport Canada, but we're a separate organization. To have that kind of imposition where interventions are able to happen with threats of losing funding if we don't behave exactly the way Own the Podium wants us to behave.... That's inappropriate.