Canadian Heritage committee  Let me start with the first part of your question. I'm the father of a teenage boy, and we know teenage boys generally do not want to report bad behaviour. It's something we really push against in our league. It's a reality of them at that age. We try to tackle it. One thing we've done is we implemented last year in each of the three leagues some new independent reporting mechanics to make it easier for players to report if they see something untoward.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's something we're working towards, but we're obviously not quite there yet.

Canadian Heritage committee  We have approximately 1,400. You're correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  Sorry. Just for clarity, this is for the Canadian Hockey League, not Hockey Canada and the action plan, correct?

Canadian Heritage committee  The 1,400, for clarity for the member, is the number of players in the Canadian Hockey League. The number of players who play junior hockey in other divisions outside of the Canadian Hockey League would be much higher. I don't know the exact number. In the Canadian Hockey League, to answer your question, the 1,400 players receive mandatory training both from the perspective of....

Canadian Heritage committee  The respect in sport training has an element that happens consistently across all 60. Outside of that, each of the three leagues treats it a little bit differently based on the scenarios that they're in. As I've indicated before, we have teams in the U.S. and some teams in Canada.

Canadian Heritage committee  This would be in reference to the Carcillo action?

Canadian Heritage committee  There's no doubt that in the past, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, there were issues in junior hockey with hazing. Since the mid-2000s, the leagues have really focused on trying to stamp out that behaviour, have put in a variety of new policies and programs to try to do that, including strong sanctions for that kind of behaviour.

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair, Maybe we can start with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Monsieur Courteau.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can talk to our approach. As I said before, we think the key spot for the training programs is at the team level, through the leagues at the team level, and with staff, team leadership and so on. As I indicated in my opening comments, in this area, you can never do too much. You can always do better.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. They're both on our website. I'd be happy to provide the link to the committee.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to defer that question to Mr. Branch, who was the president of the Canadian Hockey League at the time.

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. This type of training happens at the regional league level. I know Mr. Branch has described their programs in the Ontario Hockey League. What I may do at this point is turn it over to Mr. Robison to discuss what they do in the Western Hockey League in this area. After that, I will turn it over to Mr.

Canadian Heritage committee  If it's okay, Chair, I'll turn it over to Mr. Branch. As Mr. Smith mentioned, they have a program they work on with the regional rape crisis centre.

Canadian Heritage committee  Our experience with culture has been that it's very much dependent on individual team scenarios. What's the coaching situation? What's the leadership team? What training have they been through? We've found that it's very specific to the team. As it relates to the kind of conduct that this committee hearing is about in terms of sexual misconduct, each league, understanding the team dynamics, has really tried to put programs in place that deal with it at the team level.