Abuse in Canadian sports will face new committee scrutiny after unanimous vote
The committee will dedicate four meetings to the issue and will invite Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge to testify on the issue — as well as any other witnesses the committee “deems appropriate to invite.”Once they wrap up their work, the committee will report its observations and recommendations to the House of Commons. They’ll also ask the government to table a comprehensive response to their report.
This is the latest study on the issue, after a high-profile series of Canadian Heritage committee meetings in July. However, that probe was limited in its scope — it focused only on Hockey Canada, while this new study will have a broader mandate to look at the treatment of women and girls in a variety of sports.Arguing in favour of her motion on Monday, Larouche said the mistreatment of women and girls in sport goes beyond recent headlines about Hockey Canada.
“There are women in different sports — water polo, gymnastics and I could name many — that are talking about similar issues,” she said, speaking in French.Hockey Canada has faced a mass exodus of sponsors and resignations from its upper ranks in recent months after it emerged that the organization had used player registration fees for a fund used to settle sexual assault cases.
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