Steps to make Canadian sports safer were made in 2024, but to what end?
Justice Lise Maisonneuve, right, who will lead the Future of Sport in Canada Commission, participates in a news conference with Minister of Sport and Physical Activity Carla Qualtrough, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, on Thursday, May 9, 2024.
“It’s all well and good if we can tell each other that we should treat people better, but when the only thing that we’re celebrating is winning … we’re never going to be able to change.” Athletes Empowered director Amelia Cline, a lawyer and former elite gymnast, says beyond increased awareness there is a problem in sport that needs to be fixed, she saw minimal progress in 2024.
The Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner made public in March a searchable database of people sanctioned or whose eligibility to participate in sport was restricted. The commission’s mandate is to produce recommendations in 2025 to make sport safer and improve systems through elements such as culture, policy, funding, governance, reporting and accountability.
“Sport has to have a status in the cabinet that is commensurate with the huge challenges,” Kidd said.
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