We only hear about injuries when there's a claim. Our provincial sporting organizations do hold data locally, but that generally is not shared with the national sporting organization. That would be a gap, because what you'd be able to find, if we did have accurate data, is trends that happen across the country.
In the rugby context, a lot of data is from other countries, looking at high school, and the age of kids compared to other countries; however, they are not Canadians. That's the best data that we have now.
In rugby, we have identified that as an issue. One of the things we've just done in the past couple of weeks is partner with the University of Calgary to look at some high school data collection and injury recording. This is something we have looked at. Why are injuries not recorded? How do we get injuries recorded? What is an injury? Is putting a Band-Aid on somebody something that needs to be recorded?
We're looking into having standardized recording. What one province may record may be completely different from what another province records. What one athletic therapist records might be completely different from what another athletic therapist records.
We do have injury recording on our player welfare website that they can access. It's not accessed. Most clubs, schools and organizations will hire third party medical coverage for their tournaments and festivals. It's not clear how to get that data, or evidence.