Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. I don't know if they're two sides of the same coin or how you might phrase it, but I think they're very much interlinked. In fact, gender-based discrimination is prohibited under the UCCMS, as are forms of racism and other forms of discrimination and harm that are dir

Canadian Heritage committee  I really appreciate your shining a light on that 2016 report and the strategy and the data that informed it. Unfortunately, I would say that coaching is one area that seems very resistant to improvement when it comes to numbers, despite many interventions. I think what's really

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll leave it there.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, thank you. I think that really addressing those systemic barriers so that girls and women can thrive is the responsibility of those organizations that are responsible for designing and delivering sport.

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair and distinguished members of the committee. My name is Allison Sandmeyer-Graves, and I am the chief executive officer of Canadian Women and Sport. My pronouns are she and her. Canadian Women and Sport is a national non-profit with a 42-year history of

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. I wish to share the following insight and observations. As I shared in my remarks to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women in November, the movements for gender equity and for safety in sport are inextricably linked. One cannot be achieved without the other.

Status of Women committee  I'm very sorry. I missed part of the question and the interpretation. Would you repeat it, please?

Status of Women committee  I understand. Own the Podium is a major pot of money that is governed by a body called Own the Podium. It started with the Vancouver Olympics because we wanted to win lots of medals, and it continues today. It directs millions of dollars to our national sport organizations. It

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Shannon. I'd love to share a few thoughts. I think that in Canada we actually have quite an asset compared to other systems in that we do have a national coach education system led by the Coaching Association of Canada and its PT partners. I would say that most would

Status of Women committee  I want to mention that it was actually an all-party or committee study of the heritage committee that really kicked off a lot of that work, and that led to an initial investment of $30 million in sport, of which a portion went to addressing gender-based violence. Our organizati

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, it's true that women and girls participate at far lower rates than men and boys. As referenced, we have research that shows that during adolescence—those teenage years—girls who are playing drop out at a rate of one in three from sport, while boy

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair and members of the committee. My name is Allison Sandmeyer. I am the chief executive officer of Canadian Women and Sport. My pronouns are she/her. I'm joining you today from the traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region in southe

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. This has been a program that has been highly anticipated within the sport system. I think there's a lot of enthusiasm for the fact that it will be for community sport. It was a little bit unprecedented, to be honest, listening to our national sport organization counterparts

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. We're often very envious of our American counterparts with Title IX. I think what it did was create a legal framework and also very clear expectations for equity within the broader educational space, so it really applies to sport, which takes place in an educational

Canadian Heritage committee  Frankly, the rising cost of sport was a trend before COVID. I would say that COVID has really exacerbated it. For instance, there are the costs for cleaning facilities and the protocols of having fewer participants in the space due to greater spacing requirements, and things like