We need organizations to absolutely follow their own policies. Policies are there for a reason.
There is conflict of interest with parents being involved in coaching and leadership positions. Conflict-of-interest documents aren't just to say that you have a conflict of interest and let everyone know. Once you have a conflict of interest, you're biased. You don't have the ability to say, “I'm not going to be biased.” You don't have that anymore. That is a huge part of it.
There should be policies on keeping parents away, possibly, from their children's development in sport, so they are spectators only, not coaches, administrators and volunteers at board levels. It's tough, I know, because we need parents to be volunteers. There has to be some way to control the outside interference.
It's not just parents. It's coaches who want to make their own little swim team, for example, the only team that is succeeding at sending athletes up to the national levels. They compete against each other. We need a better, positive rivalry system in Canada, rather than this competition system that is negative and forces coaches to feel like they're forced to hurry up and develop young athletes to be the best in the world. It's not healthy for everyone.