Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you so much to all of you, parents and athletes, for being here.
You all identify as athletes. That's how you saw yourselves when you played the game. That was your identity. You were also students. You were also peoples' friends, but you've all lost so much. The three of you are no longer playing the sport you love, that you grew up loving and that you grew up working so hard to get good at.
Matthew, Ash, Carter: Carter is the strong, silent type, he may not want to chime in on this too much. He reminds me of my 17-year-old son. They won tonight, 5-2.
Ash, nine years later you're still feeling the impacts of a concussion. Besides the obvious things and the things you've said in your testimony tonight—and thank you very much for this—what else have you lost? I think about losing your whole grade 8 at school. You've all lost school time. You may all now have different groups of friends who are no longer the groups of friends you were with when you played sport.
I'll start with Ash, but anyone who wants to chime in, feel free.