Canada's Minister of Sport calls for resignations after another report on Hockey Canada
The latest news on Hockey Canada has this country's Minister of Sport calling for heads at Hockey Canada. The report, released Monday by the Globe and Mail, claimed Hockey Canada had used user fees to build a fund that paid for sexual assault claims.
Several years after Hockey Canada began using player registration fees to build a large financial reserve known as the National Equity Fund to cover sexual assault claims and other lawsuits, it channelled a significant portion of that money into a second multimillion-dollar fund for similar purposes.
Known as the Participants Legacy Trust Fund, the reserve was created by the organization and its members with more than $7.1-million from the National Equity Fund. The money was earmarked "for matters including but not limited to sexual abuse", according to Hockey Canada documents obtained by The Globe and Mail. - The Globe and Mail
Known as the Participants Legacy Trust Fund, the reserve was created by the organization and its members with more than $7.1-million from the National Equity Fund. The money was earmarked "for matters including but not limited to sexual abuse", according to Hockey Canada documents obtained by The Globe and Mail. - The Globe and Mail
This comes on the heels of other sexual assault scandals and allegations involving Hockey Canada, and what appears to be a culture of attempting to pay off alleged victims rather than stopping the assaults from taking place. Canada's Minister of Sport, Pascale St-Onge, says the new report shows a "total lack of transparency."
"And the other thing it shows is that sexual violence has been treated as an insurance problem at Hockey Canada, instead of a systemic problem that needs to be addressed."
"It shows that management needs to be replaced," St-Onge continued. "What we're all expecting, and what I'm expecting, is for executive management's resignation at this point. We need new leadership to implement the real change that needs to happen at Hockey Canada."
Hockey Canada has denied using user fees in this way in the past, and continues to deny it following this new report from The Globe and Mail as well.
Hockey Canada statement in response to Globe & Mail's story today.
«It is inaccurate to report that the Participants Legacy Trust Fund was used to settle sexual assault claims and any suggestion otherwise is false..."
HC says the fund "has never been used for any purpose..." pic.twitter.com/012bqKqUz9— Rick Westhead (@rwesthead) October 3, 2022
Minister for Sport @PascaleStOnge_ says there need to be resignations at Hockey Canada after Globe &Mail report on a second fund in the organization to deal with sex assault claims. #cdnpoli
Listen to @CityNewsTO for details https://t.co/8dwLRNqYmL pic.twitter.com/FuM9YjWd9W— Cormac Mac Sweeney (@cmaconthehill) October 3, 2022
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