Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we have recent reports from all our athletes who have spoken to us directly or through our athlete reps. We have two active athlete reps on our board of directors, who have been instrumental in capturing the athletes' voices and in being a direct pipeline to the daily training environment.

Canadian Heritage committee  They haven't been provided to us in writing at the present time. We hope to have that shortly. I can share—it's been shared with our athletes and our staff—that they have applied conditions to our receiving the funding, including having an executive director in place, making changes to our governance, adding board members—we're missing key members of our board of directors and we're on the hunt for a treasurer right now and for another board member—and making sure our bylaws are written and there's staff board training, which we're all undertaking currently.

Canadian Heritage committee  We are in the process of rewriting all of those policies. We've submitted some to OSIC in terms of signing on as a signatory. At present, we are enacting right away, at the end of June, our emergency mental health plan through Game Plan, whereby we are having organizational counselling to understand managing organization trauma and how it has affected people's perceptions and mental health, how they treat each other, how they treat themselves, and how they allow themselves to be treated.

Canadian Heritage committee  We don't have a specific policy about that yet, but we are working on it.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it's with members of Sport Canada and Own the Podium. We had an outstanding legal case to be resolved, the Kaillie Humphries case. That investigation was affecting the parties concerned. It had put us in a place of not being able to make decisions readily without legal consequences.

Canadian Heritage committee  We have instituted an immediate athlete communications pathway whereby the athletes have direct contact with all members of our sport partners, our community. We've been meeting with them regularly to ascertain what they need for safety and security. In fact, that started the week I started: meeting with the athletes, talking about them and figuring out what we can do.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, not that I'm aware of.

Canadian Heritage committee  Specifically, we've had discussions about that almost on a weekly basis. We—

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your questions. I can say unreservedly that this has been an incredibly complex issue. I'll start by saying, first of all, that when I came in, I said right away that I was going to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, although I knew those allegations were in place.

Canadian Heritage committee  I will.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the invitation to appear before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to discuss the history of Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton and our path forward for the organization. I'm Tara McNeil, and I'm the current president of the BCS board of directors. I'm joining you today with fellow board member and respected sport leader Stephen Norris.