Status of Women committee  How am I? I'm grateful to be here. It's been a very long journey, obviously. This has been going on for us since 2007, so, yes, I'm very grateful. It feels as if people who can do something about it are finally listening. It has been a very long, dark, hard road and it has to change.

Status of Women committee  I echo what Myriam says. I've spoken to so many different athletes across different sports throughout this entire thing, and I can say absolutely that across sports there are so many broken people from our Canadian sport system. This truly is.... You could even line up just the people I've spoken to over the last year since I published my blog and we would be here for days listening to stories.

Status of Women committee  I'm from Vancouver. I'm a long-time professional international soccer player and currently a member of PFA Canada, the first pro soccer player union in Canada. I'm here today to share my lived experience and call for a judicial inquiry into abuse in sport in Canada. In February 2019, I published a blog that went viral.

Status of Women committee  It was called “A Horrific Canadian Soccer Story—The Story No One Wants to Listen to But Everyone Needs to Hear”. It told the story of a giant cover-up in Canadian women's soccer—for over a decade—of a now-convicted sex offender. In 2008, Bob Birarda was the most powerful gatekeeper in Canadian women's soccer, as the head coach above the Vancouver Whitecaps and Canada's under-20 national team.