Canadian Heritage committee  It was not a sanctioned hockey activity. It was an activity that was not part of our hockey teams. It was a celebration for a number of teams that had achieved great accomplishments and other individuals. So, yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks, Mr. Bittle. I will take that back to the organization.

Canadian Heritage committee  Is that for me, Mr. Bittle?

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. You know, in the first hearing in June—I want to say it was Mr. Waugh, but if I'm giving him undue credit, that's okay—the suggestion was to compel our players, as part of our code of conduct and moving forward, that they would be...participate without question if the

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not going to speak for the NHL, but I think our position is very clear: no.

Canadian Heritage committee  I didn't write the document, and that's not to excuse myself from anything, Mrs. Thomas. What I would say is that that's not the case. We have taken this very seriously. Justice Cromwell's work is very important to us. We've taken a number of steps to be better. We have a number

Canadian Heritage committee  —to try to build us out to be much better than we are. I look at it as an investment, the number. It's a multi-faceted approach that we need to take in order to move forward and drive transformational change.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question. I'm not sure what the CHL has done.

Canadian Heritage committee  I believe I stand corrected, Mr. Julian, but we have four requirements from Sport Canada. I know that we moved along on a number of them. We have not completed them. We have not, to my knowledge, had any indication from Sport Canada that we're going to receive any funding. As th

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I will for sure. Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry; I missed that.

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, I'm not being evasive. It's not my area of expertise. My understanding is that it is true. I know that a number of our members shared that on their website and with their members, and we also held virtual town halls to walk through questions that people had—

Canadian Heritage committee  I appreciate the question. This is one of these ones, again, Mr. Housefather, to which I don't have an answer. It's not my area.

Canadian Heritage committee  I do apologize. I take note of your previous comment on our communication. I'm going to go back and have a look at that to see what needs to be done to rectify that.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Lemire, for the question. The answer is yes, we will. We have an arrangement with the Canadian Hockey League, and the CJHL. We look forward to those players being part of our programming.