Hockey Canada has appointed Toronto-based lawyer Andrea Skinner to serve as interim chair of its board of directors.
threatened to stop paying feesThe hockey organization said on Tuesday that it held a meeting with the federations and selected Skinner to take over for"As a Board we are listening to Canadians," wrote Skinner in Hockey Canada's media release. "We are working to make meaningful positive changes to the culture of the sport of hockey."Hockey Canada said Skinner graduated from Cornell University where she was captain of the varsity hockey team her senior year.
In April, a woman filed a $3.5 million lawsuit that said in 2018 eight unnamed Canadian Hockey League players, including members of Canada's world junior team, sexually assaulted her.Hockey associations and parents were outraged to learn that a special fund made up in part of their registration fees was used to pay for the settlement.
Brind'Armour stepped down on Saturday and said his final term was set to end in November 2022, but that "the important challenges facing our organization and our sport." MPs from multiple parties probing Hockey Canada's handling of the alleged group sexual assault have repeatedly called on senior leadership of the organization to step down. The MPs argue that the executives at the top failed to address the problems for years and are not the right leaders to fix the organization's culture.The current board of directors is the first elected under new bylaws requiring gender diversity, according to Hockey Canada on Tuesday.
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