Canadian Heritage committee  It's a condition of funding, so it's something all organizations have to report on every year. We recently began a validation process to see where things really stood. The results are expected to come in later this year, but—

Canadian Heritage committee  No.

Canadian Heritage committee  Every organization has to have the measures in place in order to receive funding.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, what I said was that the organizations had to have the measures in place in order to receive funding, and that we had initiated a validation process to see whether we could do even more and where there might be implementation gaps.

Canadian Heritage committee  The organizations have the measures in place. Are they as effective as they should be? That is what we are trying to find out.

Canadian Heritage committee  The organizations report on the requirements in the contribution agreements annually.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's what we are in the process of setting up.

Canadian Heritage committee  The Canada Not‑for‑profit Corporations Act, which is administered by Industry Canada, is the legislative framework that defines standards for not‑for‑profit organizations.

Canadian Heritage committee  The relationship we have with these organizations is as a funder. It's the federal government's spending power. That relationship is framed by the requirements included in the contribution agreements we have with organizations. With respect to the minister's authority, the minister may conduct financial audits with respect to the funding that is provided and the requirements that are included in the contribution agreements.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it was, and we acted quickly to ensure that no public funding was involved in the settlement of this affair, and this verification is ongoing right now.

Canadian Heritage committee  Are you talking about Hockey Canada?

Canadian Heritage committee  As I explained in my opening remarks, we enter this information in a confidential directory whenever it is disclosed to Sport Canada. We can currently see that there are eight cases in this directory since we started entering data. If you do the math over four years, it comes out to about that.

Canadian Heritage committee  We were aware that the fund existed. However, our knowledge of the fund was limited to what can be read in the organization's financial statements. In this regard, the definition of this fund makes no mention of “sexual allegations” or “sexual abuse or sexual violence lawsuit”.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. In 2022, when we learned about the settlement of the lawsuit, the first thing we did was to verify whether any public funds had been used for the payment and for this investigation. Hockey Canada told us at the time that this was not the case, but we still retained the services of an independent accounting firm—

Canadian Heritage committee  —so that a financial audit could be done on this.