Andrea Skinner announced on Saturday that she would be stepping down as director and interim chair of the board at Hockey Canada in the wake of fleeing sponsors and pressure from politicians for change in the organization’s leadership — but advocates say that while this is a step forward, more change is needed at the top.
Andrea Skinner announced on Saturday that she would be stepping down as director and interim chair of the board at Hockey Canada in the wake of fleeing sponsors and pressure from politicians for change in the board’s leadership — but advocates say that while this is a step forward, more change is needed at the top.
“I have mixed feelings, because I think her departure is a good thing — we are closing the Skinner chapter,” Francois Lemay, a municipal councillor in Granby, Que., told CTV News Channel on Sunday. This was one of the points that Skinner was grilled on at a parliamentary committee earlier this week, with members of Parliament demanding to know why he had not yet been fired.Ann Pegoraro, co-director of the National Research Network for gender equity, told CTV News Channel on Sunday that she was “surprised” that Smith has not been fired or resigned yet.
“Over 40 per cent of their revenue come from the sponsors,” Pegoraro said. “I think that's a real indication to that he's not the leader they're confident in and he needs to step aside.The federal government has also frozen Hockey Canada’s funding. She staunchly defended Hockey Canada’s actions, a move that led to an intensified call for change in the organization’s leadership.
“It is certainly for her a quick change in her rigorous defence to now stepping away and allowing someone else to lead the board,” she said. “If I'm reading a little bit into it, I think maybe she saw behind the scenes that change is really hard to make happen. And maybe it's someone else needed to do it other than her.”
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