B.C.’s Qualtrough handed tough portfolio as Canada’s new sports minister
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau changed sports ministers again and amid a Canadian safe-sport crisis with Wednesday’s cabinet shuffle.
Her return as Minister of Sport and Physical Activity marks the fifth leadership change to sport in eight years of Liberal government.Parliamentary committees have heard revelations in recent months from tearful athletes about mental, physical and sexual abuse, and their fears for their careers if they reported it to their organizations’ leadership.
St-Onge was called on to use her funding powers to punish sports organizations that allowed a culture of abuse, and to force change within those cultures. St-Onge also froze Gymnastics Canada’s money until it became a signatory to the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner , which the organization did in October.
St-Onge announced a slate of safe-sport reforms in May, including a public registry of people who have been sanctioned or suspended within the sport system, restricting the use of non-disclosure agreements, making financial statements public and changing the makeup of boards of directors.
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