Thank you Chair, and thank you again to all of our witnesses here today. I think when each one of you was speaking, I had a wow moment. We were really learning some new stuff which I think is very critical.
My family has been involved; my mom started one of the early assault centres for women, and I started one of the sexual assault centres. We started out by removing women from the situation. Then we moved to removing women and children from the situation. Then we went into charging men. Then we went into sort of educating families. Now it looks like we're educating communities. I see some progression in where we're going, but I think all of you are talking today about educating communities. I'm taking that as a really strong takeaway that that's where we actually need to be now, rather than keeping it as a tight issue just with the people who were involved, and that stopping this cycle is also involving us in schools and in sport, which I think are two really important things that we learned here today.
I appreciate, Jane Doe, that you're raising the alarm that we have some significant issues that we need to deal with. I really liked this idea of the role models, particularly for young boys. I remember a moment with my son when he was about 11. He had been kind of acting out, and he got a teacher in grade 7 that was really a good guy, a young teacher who had just graduated from university, so he was cool. My son came home one day, and he said, “Mom, I've figured out that you don't have to be bad to be cool.”
I think that's what we're learning with the Toronto Argonauts, the Calgary Stampeders and the Edmonton Eskimos, and things like that. I was reminded of the Changemakers program in the States, Dads United for Parenting. I think that's where a lot of this is going.
Todd, I want you to talk more about that, because I think that's the Kodak moment that we actually have to take away in this study. Could you talk about that please?