Canadian Heritage committee  I can't speak to everybody's calculations, because I'm not a part of those. I can speak to ours on the SIRC side, in which case the base entry point was $5,000. The entry level was at $5,000, so that's what ours was assessed against.

Canadian Heritage committee  Being a strong advocate of research, I always think there's merit to being able to look at data and being able to evaluate and apply those learnings so that we can continue to learn more.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would agree with Lorraine. I believe it's an element, and I do think it would be a strong asset if we could be consistent in the sharing. If it opens up that facilitation and sharing of information, it would be a very constructive element and component of safe sport.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry, but I'm actually not sure which organization you're referring to. Did you say “BCIS”? I'm not sure what that is.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. It's OSIC. I'm sorry. Thank you. Yes, you're right. It is a federally funded organization. We are all paying toward OSIC to make sure that, again, we're learning, we're accountable and we're all trying to move forward. This is that collective effort, with all embracing it to go forward to see how we can make sport safer.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you so much. One piece you identified is the role of the parents. We did hear a lot of.... The parents have so much to learn and they play such a critical role. Your parents will decide if you're going forward, if you are participating or not. One of the other things really speaks to education of the parents.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not the one.... That's a whole, complex question dealing with a lot of pieces that I'm not aware of. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to leave that one to go where it goes.

Canadian Heritage committee  You identified one of those big challenges. In a country as large as ours with as many sports as we have at the national, the provincial, the territorial and the community levels, there are a lot of challenges. Alignment is one of those, where it's trying to get.... Once you have a policy consistently making it through the system and across the country to the different sports, I think that becomes one of those biggest pieces.

Canadian Heritage committee  You're right. That is such a critical opportunity. I would equally refer to it as we are getting a lot of data, but that is an opportunity going forward to make sure that we have consistent data collection working with our researchers and being mindful—because it's very time consuming to try to capture it—of how to collect it.

Canadian Heritage committee  We get funding from Sport Canada for a lot of programs. We also recently received funding from Health Canada on the air quality health index. There was some provincial funding helping us make job postings more accessible. It's different types of government funding.

Canadian Heritage committee  We use it for several different projects. Some is for that core funding for communications, allowing the sport sector across the board to share their announcements, what's going on and what jobs are available. There's that central vehicle. It's also used to share educational programs, resources and new learnings.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. We have to provide reports regularly on every one of the different programs. There's the regular reporting that goes in. We have our annual report. When we're doing the special projects, we're accounting and working with Sport Canada throughout the process, as well, to make sure it is completely transparent.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we do.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and the heritage standing committee on safe sport, for inviting me to speak today on behalf of the Sport Information Resource Centre, also referred to as SIRC. To the survivors in sport who have come forward and shared their experiences and for those who have not, my heart goes out to each and every one of you, as no one should have to go through the abuses and harms you have suffered.

Status of Women committee  We have a process we go through—in this case it was for the pilot—when looking at all the different communities across the country to see what we can share—