Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, absolutely. Thank you for that question. Again, we have incredible researchers on this panel who have done the numbers and the science behind this. Mine comes from the first-hand experience of standing in auditoriums full of football coaches bearing down on me with their ar

Canadian Heritage committee  I just want to add—not that you asked—that capacity is something we also need to bring into this conversation. I'll use the U.S. Center for SafeSport as an example, which was struck after the horrific Larry Nassar case out of the USA Gymnastics organization. Why I bring up capac

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much for that excellent question. I'm honoured to answer it from my perspective as a survivor and an expert. To start with, it has become very clear to us, and I mean this with all due respect to policy-makers and analysts in the world, that our sports system was

Canadian Heritage committee  Of course. What we're looking at, specifically, is how the board operates. Are they in the operations of the business, and are they stepping in to look at the coaches' behaviour? It is that level of governance, but it's also about the governance within the team. One of the bi

Canadian Heritage committee  As mentioned, I don't work on the complaints side of our business. I can respond for a minute about how I feel as an athlete about it, and then I'd like to pass it over to Ilan, if that's okay, because I don't work in complaints. From an athlete perspective, I for one am very r

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, Madam Chair and honourable members of this committee. Thank you for inviting us here today to share our knowledge of safe sport and the current landscape in our country. My name is Allison Forsyth, and I co-founded Canada’s only full service safe spor

Status of Women committee  I'll share that there is so much work to be done in this space that OSIC.... I'll say on behalf of my own company that we need to put a regulatory body on top of us. Do whatever or audit our services, but this is a need in our country that will not be solved with one organization

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  I don't work for Sport Canada.

Status of Women committee  I go into national sporting organizations.

Status of Women committee  Do things better—yes.

Status of Women committee  Well, let me clarify—

Status of Women committee  I don't work on complaints. I think that's very important to know. The reason that—

Status of Women committee  I work with alleged victims, yes. I'll go in and I'll support victims—

Status of Women committee  —but I don't work on complaints. As a company, we took on national sporting organization complaints when there was no OSIC.