Be informed when the survey is launched
In accordance with its mandate, the Commission will be launching an anonymous public online survey to seek input from the public about their experiences in, and perspectives regarding the Canadian sport system.
Please note that the survey is under development. You may provide your email address to receive a message once the survey is available.
If you would like to provide your e-mail address to the Commission, please read the Commission's privacy notice below before providing your consent.
Privacy Notice
Authority and Purpose of Collection of Personal Information
In order to fulfil its mandate, the Future of Sport in Canada Commission (the “Commission”), which was created pursuant to section 127.1(1)(c) of the Public Service Employment Act, is collecting your personal information. The collection of personal information is authorized by section 4(2)(f) of the Department of Canadian Heritage Act. The Commission’s mandate is to review the Canadian sport system and make recommendations on concrete and effective actions with respect to (1) improving safe sport in Canada, including trauma-informed approaches to support sport participants in the disclosure of and healing from maltreatment, and (2) improving the sport system in Canada, including but not limited to policy, funding structures, governance, reporting, accountability, conflicts of interest, systems alignment, culture, and legal considerations. In fulfilling this mandate, the Commission will produce two reports (the “Reports”) and hold a National Summit for participants to deliberate preliminary findings and recommendations. Commission activities will include regional and subject-specific roundtables, a public online survey, and a public online submission portal. The Commission may also conduct in-camera sessions, meetings, interviews, focus groups, or other activities it considers appropriate to fulfill its mandate. The Commission will offer participants a variety of engagement options, as well as the opportunity to provide impact statements.
The personal information collected will be used as part of the Commission’s work to receive and record your interest in participating in its activities, provide a forum for victims and survivors of maltreatment in sport, to bring to light the experiences, causes and impacts of inappropriate behaviour and maltreatment in sport, to support healing, to seek input to inform recommendations and to engage a broader group of sport stakeholders, experts, academics and sport participants on how to improve the sport system in Canada. Personal information will also be used to produce the Reports that will include recommendations for the Government of Canada on how to create safer sport environments and improve the sport system.
The information, statements and opinions collected from you may be referred to or summarized in the Reports. However, the Commission will anonymize to the extent possible your name and other identifying information so as to ensure that you will not be identifiable, unless:
(a) you expressly consent to your name and personal information being disclosed in the Reports; or
(b) the information, statements and opinions you provide have already been established through legal proceedings, by admission or by public disclosure by you.
The Reports, which may contain de-identified references and summaries of information, statements and opinions you provided to the Commission, will be made publicly available and may be shared with third parties and partners, including provincial and territorial governments.
Your personal information will be managed and administered in accordance with the Access to Information Act, the Privacy Act, the Commission’s Terms of Reference and any other applicable laws.
Your personal information will be stored in a secure environment and accessed only by those with a working need to do so. The personal information collected will only be kept by the Department of Canadian Heritage (“Canadian Heritage”) for a period of five years following the completion of the Commission’s mandate.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Pursuant to section 8(1) of the Privacy Act, the Commission shall not disclose your personal information, unless you consent to its disclosure. However, in accordance with section 8(2) of the Privacy Act, your personal information may be disclosed by the Commission without your consent in certain circumstances, including for the purpose of complying with a subpoena or warrant issued or order made by a court.
Please note that your views and opinions about another individual are considered their personal information under the Privacy Act. As such, individuals who are the subject of allegations may obtain their personal information (such as your name and what you said about them) through the below described processes.
Please note you do not have to share personal information of other individuals with the Commission. When sharing information about others, the Commission invites you to consider anonymizing, to the extent possible, their personal information. Under the Privacy Act, personal information is defined as any recorded information about an identifiable individual. This includes, for example, the race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age or marital status of an individual, their education, medical, criminal or employment history, any assigned identifying number or symbol, their address, their name where it appears with other personal information or where the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the individual.
If you decide to share personal information about another individual with the Commission, which you may choose to do, it may result in that individual being informed of the personal information related to them through the processes of a Privacy request or an Access to Information request.
However, if you wish to meet with the Commission confidentially and without certain information being recorded in any form, the Commission will be holding, as part of its engagement opportunities, in-camera sessions. If you wish to avail yourself of this option, we invite you to request a meeting with the Commission through its portal where you will be able to choose the in-camera session option.
Furthermore, provincial and territorial child protection legislation may require the disclosure of your personal information to a child welfare or law enforcement agency.
This process is voluntary and there will be no consequences if you do not provide the requested information. Under the Privacy Act, you have the right of access to, and correction of, your personal information. To exercise either of these rights, contact Canadian Heritage’s Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator by email at aiprp-atip@pch.gc.ca . If you are not satisfied with Canadian Heritage’s response to your privacy concern, you may wish to contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada by telephone at 1-800-282-1376.