Canadian Heritage committee  This abuser in particular has been known to abuse firearms. I connected with one survivor who said that his reluctance in coming forward was that he's seen this man use firearms inappropriately. That's the reason for his reluctance in coming forward. That started a system of my connecting with my coach to see how late I can register for certain competitions so that people don't necessarily know where I am.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's implicit.

Canadian Heritage committee  My experience with her in particular was pretty harsh, I would say. Initially, I thought she was a person who was going to help me and be the person to do all of this. She's been the GymCan athlete welfare officer for over 30 years. In my opinion, gymnastics has not gotten safer in 30 years, so I question what her role in that has been.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think a national inquiry would bring to light a lot of these issues. There are still so many stories that are underground. Like I said, since my story went public, I've connected with 19 others who have had similar experiences with this man alone. They're not willing to come forward.

Canadian Heritage committee  It took me about 12 years to tell my parents remotely what happened, and even then, I definitely downplayed it. When I put out my post on social media, that's when they learned the details of it. I feel most bad for my parents because they noticed a shift about 15 years ago when the abuse started.

Canadian Heritage committee  Personally, I do not have confidence in Gymnastics Canada. Ian allegedly resigned, but we weren't given a date for when he's actually resigning. He was also the high-performance director at GymCan, so he chose people for national teams and was in charge of a lot of national team issues.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would definitely encourage other survivors to come forward. I think that coming forward is safer than ever, but there still is an incredibly long way to go to come forward and to feel completely safe. There are coalitions. There are scholars. There are a bunch of sports that have these coalitions to work together to bring out stories.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I agree with that. I reported mine to the police. Mine happened in different jurisdictions, so I reported to two different police. One set of police said that my best course of action would be to file a civil suit, and the other one is still ongoing. A lot of these are jurisdictional issues with the police in terms of where it happens.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I started gymnastics at the age of three, bouncing off the walls and making my first national team at 11. Since then, I have competed at four world age group championships and at world cups, won the Pan American Championships twice and competed at two world championships.