Canadian Heritage committee  It's really important. You know, when I look at it, the board structure was a lot different when I was there. We had over 25 members—

Canadian Heritage committee  Why is it important? It's so that all of our members—

Canadian Heritage committee  —can give the information to minor hockey players and parents on how Hockey Canada uses its funds and its finances.

Canadian Heritage committee  There certainly were some who signed NDAs, but it wasn't all of them. I can't tell you, Anthony, how many there were, but in some situations, depending on the amount of knowledge they would have, there would be some type of clause.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks for bringing up that question. There is an NDA that is in place. I know that Dan Church and two other coaches signed those NDAs. I was fully aware of how they got to that position. I was not involved; we had other senior people doing it. It was an evaluation of a coach goi

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a great question. What I remember was really an in-depth evaluation from the staff and from the players. After all of those individual meetings happened, they thought it was in the best interest to make a coaching change for us to move forward to go into the Olympic Games.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question. I really felt that we did disclose the information to our members. Remember who our members were. There are 13 branches—

Canadian Heritage committee  What I recall, and [Technical difficulty—Editor].

Canadian Heritage committee  From the NHL standpoint, I'm not aware that money was received from the government for this. That would have to be addressed with the league office in New York.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think one of the key things is that from the programming point of view, I thought we did a very good job. When I look at the situations when I was there...and again I'm going back to Graham James. He was convicted. We signed NDAs to protect the victims—it was as much for that a

Canadian Heritage committee  When I was there.... I tried to be clear here on what we did at that time. I certainly can't make a comment on the other situations that happened when I wasn't there—I'm sorry.

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, I can tell you that I know there's an investigation going on by the NHL. I'm not privy to the information from that. That will be dealt with at the National Hockey League office. I think that office, over the last while, has dealt with those situations as swiftly as

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry, but I couldn't get that question clearly. I apologize for that.

Canadian Heritage committee  You know, I didn't see them as sponsors. I saw them as partners, so they must have lost some trust in that partnership.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry, Madam Chair. That only came through in French and did not come through in English to me.