Canadian Heritage committee  My number one is to address the harassment.

Canadian Heritage committee  The harassment, the sexual harassment, the discrimination, the bullying—it may be out of the headlines now, but it's still there. I don't think the oversight's there, happening inside the organizations at the governance level and the senior management level. It's been said before

Canadian Heritage committee  On falling down, an American newspaper said that this is the day that “Penny and Simone” tied, which is never, of course...and I apologize for not knowing Simone's last name, and that's wrong. On the front page in the newspaper, there was a huge picture of Michael Phelps, and the

Canadian Heritage committee  —and the commentator said, “There's the person responsible for that world medal.” No. She's swimming. He's not. He's probably going to have a beer. She's the one who is responsible for the medal. It was like that was time and time again. My last example of it is in gymnastics wi

Canadian Heritage committee  No, but this one is on the portrayal side of it. I want to talk about the media because I am and we are fixated on television. The media needs to be seen as the entirety of perception, as where we're all seeing all of these points of view. One, in addition to that review that yo

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not sure they can. It's only if someone wants to actually go into the sports media and say, “There is a woman doing this.” I think the influence is really behind the scenes.

Canadian Heritage committee  This isn't good news, but I'm the only woman in the world who has ever done this job at the CBC. I'm the only woman in the world who has ever hosted broadcasting, and no one has done it since. That's not good. When I was there, I made sure that women were scheduled, that their e

Canadian Heritage committee  I was in Rio, so I didn't see what CBC and Radio-Canada were putting on, but I followed them online. My experience—that was my 14th Games in terms of working at them, not competing, but working, unfortunately—is that I have never been inundated with and have never seen so much di

Canadian Heritage committee  No. The clarification is that they never told them they couldn't ask an organization to pay, but what they did is they—and I'm going to use the word—required the private broadcasters to spend cash on amateur sports coverage.

Canadian Heritage committee  I am going to take it a step further. Again, it's a recommendation. In New Zealand.... This is when they took on the media. When Eugenie Bouchard was in Australia and was asked to twirl, it came out as “Twirlgate”. New Zealand has the same situation we do: A lot of women are win

Canadian Heritage committee  I was going to pitch it, but.... It's not as helpful, but I think those who will help you I call “influencers”. These are the people who are in a position to make change happen or recognize that it's an issue. When you're going to the dealerships you're talking to people who don

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll give you maybe three. The simple one, the work that I'm doing now for the IOC, is that on the last day of the Winter Olympics, currently there are no events for women. That's going to change. How can you blame the media for not covering women when there are no events on th

Canadian Heritage committee  It is true. Back in my days at the CBC, the NSOs would be knocking on the door begging for coverage. They needed the coverage so the sponsor would cover their event. There are three recommendations I have on that. We need to deal with the private sector, and I'm focusing on telev

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. As a point of clarification, is it five minutes for us or five for you?

Canadian Heritage committee  It's five minutes for you and 10 minutes for us. Lovely. Thank you. I'll get going. Is it seven and a half minutes...?