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Status of Women committee We have a process we go through—in this case it was for the pilot—when looking at all the different communities across the country to see what we can share—
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee For organizations that to our knowledge are in the matrix we are looking at, it is a no. We are doing our best to increase awareness and try to help with education. I think that's the big focus—
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee I'm happy to follow up with you in any way if there's something I don't understand.
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee This last year, given COVID.... I'm just going to speak to the numerous different pieces. It's not 92%.
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee That's a great question. We're hearing that loud and clear across the country. When it came to the survey, having education and training ended up being the biggest message, whether it was coming from our athletes or coaches. Our officials, in particular, came forward in this are
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee I think it shows we're making progress. When we look at 2019, we see it wasn't really on the radar. Now we have it and everybody has mandatory programs. Now we have an independent mechanism. This is such an important topic, and the fact that we're moving and making progress is, I
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee Do you mean an annual report on the athlete experience?
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee Honestly, I think this goes to the idea of having an athlete experience or a participant experience in sport regardless of who you are—athletes, coaches or anybody else involved. I would love to see each year that people are having a positive experience, because that was the mess
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee We receive funding and generate our revenue a lot of different ways. We do grants with researchers and literature reviews. We offer services—
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee Yes, we get some. We are doing something with Health Canada right now on an air quality health index. We do stuff with Sport Canada—
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee I'm just double-checking that I understand your question in this case. SIRC is a resource centre, and our goal is to focus on education. I'm just double-checking on that so that I understand the piece you're asking about.
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee I always think it's important to be listening, especially as we're a resource centre. You're absolutely right that listening is important. Even during the creation of the UCCMS, athletes worked together with the University of Toronto to pull together the study that was done on th
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee There are several pieces you brought forward. I'll try to make my way through a couple of the questions. To the question of hearing from everybody, obviously we're a huge supporter of due diligence and anything else we can hear. Different voices bring different experiences that
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz
Status of Women committee Let's build on the experience of watching how concussions have had a huge impact. That was shared a lot because the government kept it a priority. It meant the funding was sustainable so that people could develop programs, implement programs, monitor programs, evaluate and contin
December 12th, 2022Committee meeting
Debra Gassewitz