Former artistic swimmer named Canada’s first sport integrity commissioner
Canada has a new sport integrity commissioner whose job will be to oversee independent investigations into allegations of abuse and maltreatment in sport at a time when athletes are increasingly speaking out.
Ms. Pelletier has also served in the past as deputy general counsel and director of business affairs for the Canadian Olympic Committee. But it is her role as a former synchronized swimmer and national-team member that athletes said Tuesday was encouraging. However, in January, Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge said she would make the new independent complaints office mandatory for all sport organizations at the national level in response to the synchronized swimming case. Last week, the minister said she would also make it available to provincial and club levels to investigate abuse and maltreatment allegations.
Prior to the new office being set up, athletes told The Globe they did not trust the system national sport organizations used to investigate complaints because it was not independent, since the investigators were paid by the organizations. She added that the sport system in Canada was in a moment of crisis that needs to be confronted, with athletes from so many sports speaking out.
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