Canadian Heritage committee  Ideally, you have examples set at the top for how other organizations are to behave. Through all national sport-governing bodies, there are requirements for a harassment policy and for arm's-length harassment officers to deal with cases. A recent research project undertaken of th

Canadian Heritage committee  As background to this entire discussion is the notion that sport needs to be safe for boys and girls and for male and female coaches, but there is a plethora of research on the unfortunate cases of sexual harassment and abuse of girls and women in the sport system. I'm not sure

Canadian Heritage committee  I wouldn't say it's not in the bylaws.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would also comment that the CIS coaches don't appear out of nowhere. They're developed somewhere else.

Canadian Heritage committee  The athletic directors, of course, are about 80% male.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't speak for all universities as to whether it's in their bylaws or not. I think it's a very good suggestion, but I think it's one piece of the puzzle. I don't think it will solve the entire problem we're facing. When you have a predominance of male university presidents, ri

Canadian Heritage committee  I think we need to do a lot of education around unconscious bias and blind spots for gender and other forms of diversity. It's a matter of recruiting and taking risks. When you recruit and take risks, you need more resources. More resources cost money so absolutely, I wouldn't ar

Canadian Heritage committee  The performance issue that you've raised is an interesting one because I think it's certainly the second, maybe the third summer Olympic Games where the women have dominated the medal count. We have this participation rate at the more recreational levels by girls. We have high-

Canadian Heritage committee  No, they were making a tremendous amount of progress.

Canadian Heritage committee  It was progress that was not replicated in some of the networks to our south, for example.

Canadian Heritage committee  So, yes, they are.

Canadian Heritage committee  The enthusiasm that we see across Canada when the Olympic Games are on, unfortunately, does not translate into higher participation rates after the Olympic Games, as one might expect it would. The research does not bear that out. We're back to questions around access, and opport

Canadian Heritage committee  It ranges from encouraging physical literacy in early childhood and physical literacy development once we get in the school system, so that children feel more competent and self-assured when they go into learning new sports. The after-school programs that many of us grew up with

Canadian Heritage committee  That data exists, but I don't have it at my fingertips. If we're going to ask that question, I think we need to look more broadly, because more women participate in instructional fitness classes than men, as another example. More women participate in the dance program than men. I

Canadian Heritage committee  The recommendations need to be multi-faceted and multi-layered, and parents are certainly a part of the sport culture and coaching. I was also going to pick up on the value of sport, physical activity, and physical education in the school system, because schools are the great eq