Canadian Heritage committee  England and Norway are the two most popular examples right now. England made the transition a few years ago from a short-term to a longer-term funding system. Norway also has a similar system in place, which is more focused on long-term potential.

Canadian Heritage committee  You're quite right: it's really caught up in the sports culture. So it's the whole culture that needs to change, looking at what we idealize and who we set up as role models. That's why, in my talk, I talked a lot about the importance of scientific knowledge. The science shows us that, contrary to what you might think, it's not the coaches or the behaviours we're seeing now that are most successful in the long run.

Canadian Heritage committee  Currently, the funding system in Canada is based very much on medal potential, especially short-term medal potential. In other countries, there are funding systems that are based on potential within a 12‑year time horizon, for example, or on an athlete's development plan for the next 12 to 15 years.

Canadian Heritage committee  The answer is complex. At the provincial level, the implementation of mechanisms for athletes to make whistleblowing reports is fairly recent, and we see their limitations as they are used.

Canadian Heritage committee  For example, we look at what happens once whistleblowing is done and what the implications are for confidentiality and anonymity. We also see what measures are put in place with respect to coaches, administrators, or organizations that are the subject of these whistleblowers. It's hard to answer you in just 30 seconds.

Canadian Heritage committee  I will join my colleagues in calling for a national public inquiry. With field hockey being our national sport, the Hockey Canada case has received a lot of attention and has stirred up passions. However, the same situation exists in many other federations, which receive less attention because they are sometimes smaller.

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning. I would like to thank the committee for inviting me to share my experience, expertise and views on high-performance sport, generally, and the situation in Canada, specifically. I'm a professor at the department of human resource management in the school of management at the Université du Québec à Montréal.