Status of Women committee  I just didn't want to deal with it until I have to. Obviously this is a public record and it will be streamed, and I have a thicker skin and a better system....my support animal is here with me. I've a better way of handling it this go-around than I did in 2016, but I just didn't

Status of Women committee  Yes, I think we did it backwards. I don't understand why we created a system and then did not make it mandatory. It should have been mandatory from the get-go. Sport, unfortunately, is tethered to funding, and NSOs don't exist without it, so why weren't they required to be part o

Status of Women committee  I actually didn't publicize that I would be testifying here today. Ironically enough, trying to figure out what I was going to wear.... I remember being so nervous, the last time, because the blouse I wore had sheer sleeves. I thought I wasn't dressed. Because of my education a

Status of Women committee  I would like to say thank you to Leah for acknowledging that the athlete brain can be a battered brain, and these probably are synonymous, unfortunately. I think trauma-informed practices are of vital importance. If an athlete is going to speak up, it might not necessarily be t

Status of Women committee  Oh. Um.

Status of Women committee  It's more about trying to clean up some of the language. Essentially, when I testified the last time, I spoke about everything, but I wasn't as candid as I am now. I wish I had been, but it shows where I was at, I think, in my healing journey. The last time I was here, I had to

Status of Women committee  It's not that I don't think OSIC is effective or can be effective. I was part of the SDRCC, which put in the request. The government put out a call for applications to create a safe sport and abuse-free sport program. They asked for that to be housed within an existing entity, so

Status of Women committee  I would say, and we were talking about it earlier, that.... My human brain is very smart; I've got a lot of letters after my name that say I'm a really intelligent person. My athlete brain is stupid; it is dumb. I am really good at running reasonably quickly in mostly straight l

Status of Women committee  It would be a safe place, somewhere where I could complain and talk about what was happening to me, and it not be investigated by the people I was complaining about. That's how it works. When I was growing up in the skating system, Skate Canada used to have this program called “m

Status of Women committee  Thank you for having me. My name is Lanni Marchant. I'm an Olympian in the 10,000 metres and marathon, a former Canadian record-holder in the marathon and half marathon, graduate of the University of Ottawa and Michigan State's colleges of law, and a licensed and practising atto

Canadian Heritage committee  I would also state that it's what we see in school. I was in a sport that wasn't part of school when I started high school. I was a figure skater. I was the weird girl who left class every day at 10 a.m. to go drive an hour to Kitchener, skate, and do my homework at 10 p.m., befo

Canadian Heritage committee  My understanding for other sports is they'll have trials and it's the top three across the line. I'm not well versed enough in other sports to know necessarily if there are qualifying times or standards. I imagine in swimming there might. But when you look at our top swimmers, yo

Canadian Heritage committee  I believe I covered all the bases that I wanted to touch on. I recognize the role I play as an athlete in Canada and the more important role I play as a female athlete in Canada. I've spent time since the Olympics speaking at several schools and at different expos and talking a

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, and in a perfect world, that would work, but as I mentioned, being vocal about my desire to double at this past Olympics, I was sent a threat of a sanction. That's why we're here to speak to you. You need to come in on our behalf. The COC and Sport Canada need to come in on

Canadian Heritage committee  If you don't put us on TV there's not going to be more viewership. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy; you don't see us. Some men in athletics have some great stories, but you don't have to seek those stories to make those men great athletes. Yes, as I commented, there are so many a