Canadian Heritage committee  I would like to be able to give you more detail on that. I didn't have day-to-day access. I wasn't dealing with insurance and risk management back to the branches. We had insurance committee people. We had insurance staff as well as legal staff who would deal with that. With regard to any of the major ones that came up, they would bring it to my table and we would take it to our board for approval.

Canadian Heritage committee  No. I'm not sure if they were asked, or if any did. I know the coaches were asked.

Canadian Heritage committee  Looking back, sadly, yes, there were too many in camera.

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, I'll try to go quickly over the timelines. On July 7, I heard of this rumour. On July 8, I called a couple of staff with Hockey Canada to find out if they knew about the rumour. They did not. I was then notified on July 22 that Hockey Canada was issuing a statement about the rumour to the Halifax police—

Canadian Heritage committee  No. They have not.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have been contacted by—

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me start, first of all, with the rings. Everyone who was involved with the team got a ring. Over my period, we once bought them for the entire board. Maybe it was twice, Peter. I honestly can't remember, but it would have been once or twice. We had board members who were with the team, and they would have gotten the rings as part of the group with the team—

Canadian Heritage committee  On that question.... You know what? I wish I could go back. I wish I could have put more policies in. My job as CEO was to run the operations. Policies came from the board. I'm not deflecting that back to the board. I was the CEO and I should have been encouraging more policies.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I was.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a very good question. I'm thinking about it right now. You know what? I was directed to sign those agreements from recommendations from our lawyers, from our risk management, from our insurance people. We took the settlements back to the board and then I would sign it. My role—I will use Graham James again—was having our legal, our insurance, our risk and safety management, our expertise to work on the settlement, and then I had the role to meet with the victims.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't speak to each one of those documents. In the majority of my time with Hockey Canada, we had people from the government, from Sport Canada, sitting at our table. We met with Sport Canada individuals on an ongoing basis. With regard to all of the documents, all the bylaws, how we governed ourselves, those questions were asked, or I felt comfortable that Sport Canada was there all the time around Hockey Canada, so I thought that those were given to the government.

Canadian Heritage committee  —can give the information to minor hockey players and parents on how Hockey Canada uses its funds and its finances.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I really thought we did. I don't have the financial statements in front of me, Rachael. I felt that we gave those to our members. If they're not in our financial statements that you received from Hockey Canada, then obviously they weren't given out to them.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it should.