While police continue to investigate the sexual assault allegations, federal Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge quite properly commissioned a full audit of Hockey Canada dating to 2016.
This week, just days before the scheduled committee appearance, more news broke that Hockey Canada actually had a second fund to handle sexual assault claims. The federal government have frozen funding and corporate sponsors put a hold on their support, turning this summer’s World Junior Hockey championship in Alberta into the sporting equivalent of a tree falling in a forest with no one there to hear it. Then, further allegations of sexual assault against players on Canada’s national junior team from 2003 in Halifax. Then came news that Hockey Canada maintained a so-called National Equity Fund to pay for uninsured liabilities, including sexual-abuse claims. None of the allegations have been proven in court. The last year at Hockey Canada has produced enough appalling news that most entities under similar duress would have cleaned house and agreed to whatever terms citizens, stakeholders and government demanded by way of renewal.įirst came media reports of an alleged sexual assault following a 2018 gala in London, Ont., involving eight unidentified players - including members of that year’s world junior championship team.Ī police investigation resulted in no charges, but a woman - 18 and intoxicated at the time of the alleged assault - later sued Hockey Canada, the Canadian Hockey League and unnamed players for more than $3.5 million and reached an out-of-court settlement. The defiant performance amounted to chutzpah on stilts, so out of touch with the reality of proceedings that MPs wanted to know if Skinner was perhaps being coached by someone off screen working from a script. She also awarded current CEO Scott Smith an “A” in the performance of his duties. And to me, that’s not a risk worth taking.” Will the lights stay on in the rink? I don’t know. “I think that will be very impactful in a negative way to our boys and girls who are playing hockey. She went on to say that the hockey world in this country could not possibly cope with a wholesale housecleaning at Hockey Canada.
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“Toxic behaviour exists throughout society,” she told MPs via video link, and to crack down on hockey would be “counterproductive.” Skinner suggested the problem of sexual assault was societal, rather than particularly prevalent in hockey. The interim chairman of Hockey Canada, testifying before a Commons committee on Tuesday, put on a master class of denial, deflection, whataboutism and arrogance. When it comes to wilful blindness and delusional self-importance, it’s no small accomplishment to leave a committee of politicians - themselves masters in the craft - slack-jawed and speechless.
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