Status of Women committee  Yes, operationally, the commissioner reports to me, since I make sure she has the necessary resources, employees and expertise in her office to do her work. Functionally, however, she's independent of me. I'm unaware, for example, of the files that she and her staff handle. She d

Status of Women committee  I'll say a little bit about the registry and then about education. For the registry, the only one we know that is national is the one in the United States. It is consultable online. This is something we're looking at as a model. In other countries they are also struggling with t

Status of Women committee  I completely agree with you. I believe we are limited in our jurisdiction right now. If the government wanted to expand that, we'd welcome it. What happens in school and community sport is something we do not currently have jurisdiction over. Our jurisdiction is contractual. We

Status of Women committee  We're currently speaking to all of them. We're hopeful that we're going to collaborate in the creation of their own systems within their jurisdictions, or that some of them are prepared to sign an agreement with us. Then we would have jurisdiction in their provincial sports and a

Status of Women committee  Our process right now is working at the national level.

Status of Women committee  We are talking to them and we're moving forward on this.

Status of Women committee  It would be wonderful.

Status of Women committee  This is why the registry would be a part of the solution. Right now, with the legislative framework of privacy laws in Canada, we're very limited in what we can do with a public registry. We have so many examples of coaches who move from one province or level or move from being

Status of Women committee  First, I agree with you that if the behaviour is criminal, yes, the criminal system should be able to help them. The criminal system has failed to help the children. At the SDRCC, we've been working on this for many years now, trying to get a space to help with the abuse and har

Status of Women committee  Madame Chair, members of the committee, thank you sincerely for inviting me to speak on such an important topic. My name is Marie-Claude Asselin. I am, for close to 16 years now, the Chief Executive Officer of the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada, the SDRCC, home of the