Hockey Canada boasted about its ‘second to none’ safe-sport management in 2019
Hockey Canada asked the federal government in 2019 if it could self-govern its safe-sport cases, despite facing a “significant potential claim.”
“It is no secret that Hockey Canada was forced into action regarding sexual misconduct specifically following the Graham James/Sheldon Kennedy revelations that rocked not only our sport, but the nation as a whole in the late 1990s,” McCurdie wrote in the email obtained by The Canadian Press. The sport’s national body has been under intense scrutiny since news of an alleged sexual assault following a 2018 gala in London, Ont., involving eight unidentified players — including members of that year’s world junior team — and subsequent hushed settlement broke in May.None of the allegations have been proven in court.
“From that letter, this is an organization that just doesn’t get it, and doesn’t get it three decades after the horror of what Sheldon Kennedy experienced, after Larry Nassar and U.S. gymnastics,” Duncan told The Canadian Press. “And I think what the letter shows is the real thinking, the thinking behind closed doors, and not when the eyes of the nation are watching and judging.”
News of this “product” exploded in July when Hockey Canada officials told House of Commons’ heritage committee it used the organization’s National Equity Fund, which draws on minor hockey membership fees, to pay out $7.6 million in uninsured claims across nine settlements related to sexual assault or abuse since 1989. That figure did not include the alleged London incident.
McCurdie noted in the potential claim mentioned, the athlete are the alleged perpetrator, not the victim.
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