Board presidents were grilled for two hours by MPs on the federal Heritage committee over how the organization has handled multiple allegations of sexual…
Current interim chair of Hockey Canada’s board of directors Andrea Skinner and former chair Michael Brind’Amour were grilled for two hours by MPs on the federal Heritage committee on how the organization has handled multiple allegations of sexual assaults over decades against its member players or coaches.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Hockey Canada has been under intense scrutiny after TSN reported in the spring that a woman had filed a $3.55-million lawsuit alleging she had been sexually assaulted by multiple members of Canada’s 2018 World Junior Team. She also said Hockey Canada had acted in a “responsible and respectful” way towards the victim of the lawsuit by settling, thus sparing her “the cruelty and the invasiveness of an adversarial court process involving cross examination and harsh defence tactics.”
“What 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 at the root of the problem,” Ste-Onge told reporters, adding she expected there to be resignations. Skinner’s testimony was evidently jarring to MPs, who said they had lost confidence in Hockey Canada, that the organization was acting “Trump-like” with its attacks on the media, and that it was “encouraging” a culture of silence towards sexual assault victims.
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