Canadian Heritage committee  No. We're very confident in the COC and the preparations they've made. Also, with our insurance through the CSA and the organizations in Canada, we're very confident in the operations over there and the preparations we've made. Peter explained it very well.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it is the same for ski jumping.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think we've prepared our athletes as best we can with the money we have available. We had a significant hole in our budget this year from the lack of Own the Podium funding. I wouldn't sit here and say that more money wouldn't help quite a bit, but the athletes are on a specifi

Canadian Heritage committee  We're in the situation where we need to develop athletes at a very young age. Basically, they need to start at seven or eight to ten years old. Given the depth in our program right now on the women's side, I'm really looking forward to 2018 to see the progression of some of these

Canadian Heritage committee  No. After Vancouver.... I think ski jumping is a European-dominated sport; the governance is all European. Once they got used to the idea that this was going to happen, once they got on board, it was full steam ahead. The professionalism of the women's programs in Europe has ta

Canadian Heritage committee  It's probably a little bit different. We haven't seen any malicious acts or anything like that. We were there once in preparation. It was just difficult—I think that's the word I would use—in terms of the way they operate. It was very disorganized when we were there. Skis were le

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that the sport needed to get to a point where it was Olympic calibre. I don't think we were there four years before Vancouver. I definitely think the sport was there one or two years before Vancouver. It is definitely there now. We have a deep field with a lot of countr

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks very much for allowing me the opportunity to talk today. My experience is a little more limited than the two gentlemen you just heard from, but maybe it will be a bit of a different perspective. I'd like to applaud the continued investment in winter sports throughout th