Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Bob Nicholson. I served as president and CEO of Hockey Canada from 1998 to 2014. I will do my best to address your questions regarding my time there. Let me say up front that the allegations about the incidents at the 2018 gala and at the 200

Canadian Heritage committee  —and I want to work with you to create a healthy environment around our game. With that, I'll do my best to answer your questions. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your question. The rumour was conveyed to me by a media person on July 7 at the draft in Montreal. That was the very first time I heard anything about the 2003 incident.

Canadian Heritage committee  I was the CEO, but that area was really left to our insurance people. We had very good staff. We also had a committee that oversaw the insurance programs as well as some expertise. You had Barry Lorenzetti here. He was a big part of that. All of that came to me, but I was not d

Canadian Heritage committee  The very first one was the equity fund. Then we moved into the legacy fund in 1999. The stabilization fund was there in 2007 and 2008.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can tell you that when I left Hockey Canada, those funds were in the neighbourhood of $40 million to $50 million. There are other areas that the money was there.... The goal at that time was to make sure that we had enough funds if something drastic happened to Hockey Canada or

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't tell you the exact number of NDAs that were signed. I know that where there were payouts or NDAs signed under the Graham James situation...and there have been others that are there from staff in the past, but for me to say a number, I just don't have that. You could go

Canadian Heritage committee  Kevin, thanks for asking that question. That was something that I got involved in. Graham James went to Spain to coach. We contacted the International Ice Hockey Federation at the time, and we contacted Spain and gave them the information about Graham James. It was astonishing,

Canadian Heritage committee  I missed the first part of that, Kevin. I'm sorry.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question. I can only speak about the years that I was there. Those were the three insurance funds that were in place, to the best of my knowledge.

Canadian Heritage committee  To the best of my knowledge, no.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it is.

Canadian Heritage committee  From an operational standpoint, I do. You know, we had full-time staff who were working in insurance and risk management. They had a committee, and we had representatives from all of our 13 member branches, and then we would take those recommendations to our board.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can tell you that during my time a majority of them were around the Graham James.... Graham James was convicted. Five of the six at that time were under Graham James, and we signed NDAs. The reason we signed those NDAs at that time was as much to protect the victim. We have a c

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't tell you exactly. Again, the majority came through Graham James. There was one other incident that was a similar situation to that, and then there has been some discussion on a referee situation. I can't really remember. There were a couple more than that at that time.