Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'd like to start by thanking all of you for being here and for speaking so openly with us. It is making a difference. It will make a difference. We very much appreciate this. I think I speak for all members of the committee when I say that we really are focused on protecting children.
I'd like to direct my first question to Ms. Shore. For many Canadians who are not involved in sport or who don't have children in sport, this is something that is quite shocking to see. The question that many of us have is how is it possible that this has gone on for decades? Have people been looking the other way? It's human of us to want to protect children, so somewhere something went wrong. When I talk to friends who were athletes, they all say, “Oh, we knew who the creepy coaches were”. They knew. There's a whisper network. Everybody was sort of hush-hush, but nobody really said it.
I want to put an open-ended question to you about how this happened despite the fact, as I understand it, that there have been safety officers in gymnastics in Canada for 30 years. What is it that has gone wrong?