Canadian Heritage committee  Each sport, as we've clearly mentioned today, needs its own lens. As you mention, hockey is a little bit different from soccer or the other sports. Canada Soccer restructured the delivery of the programs. You see the mini-fields, and it's a little bit more age-appropriate. Hockey

Canadian Heritage committee  Obviously, it's extremely important. I don't know how, moving forward, we can create a reporting system and maintain complete privacy for them. Look at how difficult it's been for him. I can't speak to that. It needs to go far above my understanding of this. I feel so terrible th

Canadian Heritage committee  Other OHL clubs have an academic adviser, for sure. I think my particular area of education and what I do as a day job is quite unique, since I am involved in the sports community. As well, I teach values and social and emotional learning through sport. For the certifications t

Canadian Heritage committee  That's not for me to decide. As I said, I work with the kids who are in front of me. If I was working with this student at school, it would be private. We don't share information about students under the age of 18 on indiscretions that they may have at school, or on suspensions

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's extremely challenging to move kids away. The last two years of high school are difficult for an adolescent who is, as I mentioned earlier, trying to establish their identity, place, friendships and what they may or may not be doing after the age of 18. The situatio

Canadian Heritage committee  I do. Thank you so much for asking that. I constantly refer back to swimming lessons. You don't usually join a swim team until you get to a certain level of your swimming lessons. We go into sport and, as you said, it's the Wild West. We're not making sure that some of the kids

Canadian Heritage committee  I address this situation in the way that I would if I was teaching a student at my school who experienced difficulty and needed support, guidance and discipline. As I work with kids as they age through high school, it's very common for students to make mistakes. They are adoles

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. That is one of the reasons why I'm able to, within the job I have, teach the sport systems to the athletes who sit in front of me. Your provincial governments can deliver this type of information through courses that are in their high schools already. We can put them

Canadian Heritage committee  I have no idea. I just know that if I'm made aware of something, I know exactly what I'm supposed to do, and I wouldn't go home that day until it was addressed to the people that it needed to be addressed to, and then there's follow-up after. I would assume that it was from the

Canadian Heritage committee  He is an outlier, one of the greatest stars who's going to be going into the National Hockey League, and very shortly, it seems. Unfortunately, he's an example of fandom gone wild. It filters down to younger age groups as well. They see that. They aim for that. How do you pro

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for saying that. That's exactly what's happened in the last 10 to 15 years, like we said earlier...trying to change youth sports into a breeding ground for the elite. It's supposed to be the long-term athlete development model, which enables everyone to play sport. Ther

Canadian Heritage committee  This goes beyond what I'm able to address, which is why everybody's meeting—

Canadian Heritage committee  —and educating with regard to the process of going through the sport and what is actually appropriate per age group. The reporting systems that are in place are not clear, and I've said that. As a parent who did raise children through sport, I wouldn't even know where to find t

Canadian Heritage committee  To be honest, that's heard constantly. Because they played, they think they know how to lead. Unfortunately, that's not the case. They're really good at the technical and the tactical side of the sport, but even applying that to particular age groups effectively is where there ma

Canadian Heritage committee  The way we do it in our program is, for example, something like “respect in sport”, which a lot of people have heard of. We don't just have people complete the certification. We actually monitor the kids as they go into the community. We have feedback, evaluate them and mentor th