Thanks, Madam Chair.
Welcome, Judge Aquilina.
We started this because there were sexual assault allegations over a function Hockey Canada held in June 2018, five years ago today, in London, Ontario. It was five years ago. Let that sink in.
This past weekend, I read that several of the players on that junior team are getting upset because they weren't at the function, yet they have been tied to the function and can no longer represent Canada in any world competition. Is that fair to them? It's been five years and ticking. We still have not heard from the London, Ontario police force.
That's the issue we have in this country. Everybody is waiting for the investigation. Nobody knows when. You said the police investigation.... They should close it and bring it out. They could take five more years to bring it out. I don't know. Nobody knows.
What should we do with this? That's where this safe sport study started. This incident was reported a year and a half after it happened, by someone at TSN looking at the court dockets: “Oh, look what I see.”