Former sport minister calls for national inquiry citing abuse, misconduct in sport
Canada’s former sport minister is calling for “real leaders to step up” over fears the country may repeat history if the federal government doesn’t launch a national inquiry into sports culture.
Duncan said an inquiry would need to be broad and far-reaching, allowing athletes a safe place to give testimony about alleged abuse or misconduct. Soccer players Ciara McCormack and Andrea Neil, along with Olympic boxer Myriam Da Silva Rondeau and fencer Emily Mason echoed each other in pushing for an inquiry into the handling of abuse and mismanagement at their respective sporting organizations and across the country.
“Is the Minister of Sport watching? Is the Prime Minister watching? Is whoever making these decisions, are they watching? It’s very much impacted our lives far past our sporting careers and it’s just so disappointing. I just feel ashamed, honestly, to be a Canadian that this is the reality of what it means and the response to being a Canadian athlete and this is the response to so many of us coming forward for so many months now,” she said.
Rondeau has won both a gold and silver medal at the Pan-American games and placed ninth at the 2020 Olympic Games but said due to mental trauma, she cannot remember those achievements.
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