Canadian Heritage committee  No, we don't have any of those powers.

Canadian Heritage committee  Specifically, we separate ourselves from the actual investigation. We have an arm with Western Law called Sport Solutions. If an athlete comes to us specifically with any sort of complaint whether it's, say, with sport, athlete agreements, the selection process, we advise them to

Canadian Heritage committee  How it works with us is an athlete will come to us and say that they have been having this issue, so we will talk to them, obviously, and then see where that's at. If they want to write a letter of complaint, we potentially could help them write that letter to their NSO, if that'

Canadian Heritage committee  OSIC, or a form of it, needs to be nationwide. There needs to be a reporting mechanism for the grassroots. We can't have it just at the national level. I don't really know the specifics of how that would look. It's out of our scope at AthletesCAN, but it has been talked about b

Canadian Heritage committee  To answer the first part of your question about what was found, I alluded to the findings at the beginning of my remarks. They included: performance excellence at all costs; normalization of harm; lack of attention to equity, diversity and inclusion; a culture of fear and silence

Canadian Heritage committee  For the final part of your question, we are not against a national inquiry. We are trying to work with what is there now, and that's why we're focusing on education and governance.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for clarifying it. Yes, at AthletesCAN we listen to all of these testimonies. We are working in the field. As I mentioned, we've conducted studies. We are—

Canadian Heritage committee  Would you like me to start again from the top?

Canadian Heritage committee  At AthletesCAN our board works, yes, to hear and talk to as many athletes as possible, and then try to instill change. We work in the safe sport field. But we also work in many different areas in terms of what active athletes are looking for, such as funding, increased funding, a

Canadian Heritage committee  I cannot, off the top of my head. I would have to look into the resources. Oftentimes, she just partners with us if we do solicit a researcher, but I don't know what the monetary value is there.

Canadian Heritage committee  As an organization, we try to talk to all of the groups that come forward. We've talked to bobsleigh and rowing. We've reached out to different gymnastics groups in the past, roughly a year ago. We try and support them online. As we move forward, we're always looking to improve w

Canadian Heritage committee  Can you be a little bit more specific? Generally, in the safe sport field, is that what you're asking?

Canadian Heritage committee  Moving forward—and it was just touched on by Ms. Glover—education and learning how we can teach the sports system to be better is the main thing. Education is good at all levels, as is using whatever resources are already out there to help facilitate and speed up this change.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for having me here today and thank you to all the panellists here today for their efforts in this space. I am an active athlete, a four-time Paralympian and I have been on the national team since 2007. Today I'm here speaking to you on behalf of AthletesCAN, which is