‘Will the lights stay on in the rink?’ Hockey Canada executives double down on defiance in Parliament Hill hearings
indicated Hockey Canada also set up a secondary fund — the “Participants Legacy Trust Fund” — for similar purposes, earmarked for “matters including but not limited to sexual abuse.”from his position with Hockey Canada in August in the wake of reports alleging members of Canada’s 2003 and 2018 World Junior teams were involved in group sexual assaults, with the governing body settling a lawsuit related to the 2018 incident.
Multiple members of the Canadian Heritage Committee asked Skinner about the current state of leadership at Hockey Canada. Skinner’s answers were almost uniformly defensive. The interim chair said she grades CEO Scott Smith’s current performance “as an A, under these circumstances” and said he presented the gold medals at the Women’s World Championship with the endorsement of a woman in a leadership position at Hockey Canada.
But Skinner remained firm in striking back against calls for leadership changes, saying she doesn’t believe senior management acted inappropriately and the executives in place are the ones the organization will move ahead with to carry out its “action plan.”
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