I think the financing is going to the right place.
One challenge I had specifically was the unwillingness of our board to recommend women or BIPOC people, which was very frustrating to me. I actually spoke in a course with six of our board members about a month before I was terminated. The man—the teacher—asked me why I thought it was difficult for our board, which had seven men and one woman on it at the time, to attract diverse populations. My answer was that they don't see diversity as being as important as skills.
Why we have to choose between one and the other is beyond me. We've had great BIPOC candidates and women—Olympians—apply. Instead, the SSC board nominated a man from Colombia. Now we spend thousands of dollars bringing in this man from Colombia, rather than a former Olympian woman from Calgary.
Boards have to be held accountable. It's difficult for CEOs, who are their employees, to combat them if they truly don't want to co-operate with the funding requirements that CEOs try to co-operate with.