Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Mr. Dryden, for sharing your thoughts with us today to kick this off.
Like my colleagues who have spoken before me, I want to reiterate how important it is to have someone like you, who is a sports icon, to come and help us establish some benchmarks of where we can be going.
As you know, books that are written and are popular culture.... When we have people who are championing a cause and breaking the silence, breaking a barrier, breaking a pattern of thinking, people who are held in high regard in our society, it is effective. Besides your book, because people are mentioning goalies, I want to mention that Curtis Joseph also has a very poignant book right now that is making us have larger discussions about other meaningful aspects. Why are people listening? It's because of the great weight of his own persona.
Having said that, we have a social hierarchy, and we have within that a need to uplift sport and to “protect this game”. That's how we get through to these sports decision-makers. They evolve over time as well. We have young people in this room today who are going to be sports decision-makers some day. How do we establish the ground work? When we're talking about decision-makers and people in politics, like us, you mentioned that we can't get everything right, but there are things we can do, and the big ones we can't get wrong.
I know I used a lot of my time in my preamble. Just take the rest of my time and expand on that for us a bit. Maybe you've already shared some of that in your book, but you can just paraphrase for us. I think it's really important that we get into that.