Mr. Speaker, I would like to say thank you and congratulations to my colleague and friend. He has been an active part of the progress made over the last two and a half years.
It has been a team effort. It has been challenging. The testimony has been hard to listen to and hard to read, but we have made extraordinary progress together. The one place where I will disagree with my friend and colleague is that we have not made progress. It has been extraordinary. We have stood up the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner. We have invested an incremental $75 million through the community sport for all initiative in a safe, equitable and accessible manner. We have made sure that the safe sport program is not just optional, as my friend keeps pointing out, but is mandatory; it is obligatory, and it is absolutely essential for every national sport organization that wishes to receive funding from Sport Canada.
The system is changing. The commission is absolutely under way, but the member refuses to acknowledge that. It is taking place as we speak, and that is remarkable progress.
I would like to thank the member once again. I would like to thank the members of the committee and all witnesses who have come forward to bravely share their testimony. It has created a safer sports system in Canada.