Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks, Chris, for the question. I look at how the National Hockey League responded to the situation in Boston. I look at what the National Hockey League has been doing for the last number of months—the last year and a half, in fact—in regard to these situations. They're taking it very seriously.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a really good question, Chris. There may have been under the women's Olympic team in 2014. They may have been asked, but I'm not sure if any were signed. Other than that, I don't know of any other situations with any of our national teams being asked to sign NDAs.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question. It's a very delicate one, Kevin. You can't jump on it too much, because it's a rumour, but do your homework quickly and try to get to those sources and get the real, valid information so that you can.... I think moving quickly is really important, but you have to be careful with that, Kevin.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Peter, for the question. We didn't have set guidelines on NDAs. I'll go right to Dan Church. I can't say too much, because we have a signed NDA with him. It was a number of very touchy subjects that were discussed with the assistant coaches and with a number of players on the team.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can only comment on the times that I was there on the sexual assault things that happened. I really felt that through Graham James and a couple of those other situations, we handled it correctly internally, from our legal...to our insurance, to our risk and safety management, but we didn't handle it correctly because we took so much of it in camera.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think you're doing a good job with the way the committee is working now. I think you're getting a lot more information to put the right platforms and the right topics in it to move forward. On transparency, I'm assuming that Hockey Canada has really learned from this and that they will change their ways.

Canadian Heritage committee  —that are really necessary for NSOs to get funding. A lot of it is around expenses. A lot of it is around communication internally within NSOs and then how they have to report to government. I've even thought further of how you report to your partners, your partners being your 13 branches and all of your sponsors, because you need sponsors for sport to grow in the country for young boys and girls.

Canadian Heritage committee  When I look at the situations that I was involved in at Hockey Canada, and those individuals, and there were a couple of them, they were convicted in the courts. We had those discussions with the victims and I felt that we protected the victims in those situations as much as possible.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's not acceptable. Find the courage to come forward. As I've stated, the 2003.... We're just hearing about that now. I hope that the investigations, and there are ongoing investigations, will be able to come forward. If these rumours are true, there will be severe circumstances for the individual players.

Canadian Heritage committee  I really feel that when you look at the funds for hockey and what the costs are, you see that there's the insurance fund, which when I was there was approximately $11, and there's a fee of $3 for individuals to play. That $3 hasn't increased, I don't think, over the last number of years.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks for that question. It's a really difficult one for me to answer. As I stated earlier, we had an insurance department. We had committees that dealt with all of that. I oversaw that as the CEO who would have to bring any of those changes to the board for final approval.

Canadian Heritage committee  I am not 100% sure on that. It probably isn't right for me to comment. Those were probably done within our insurance group and were not brought to my desk. If they were brought to my desk, I can't honestly tell you if there were NDAs or not.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not aware of all those, no.

Canadian Heritage committee  We used to have what we called financial forums. We had the branch presidents, as well as their people who were involved in their day-to-day operations of the finances, as well as risk management. I'm assuming that all that detail happened at that time. I can't tell you. I didn't sit in at all of those meetings, but there was a lot of detail and a lot of flow of information that went back between our CFO and our financial committee, and then to our 13 members.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't disagree.