Hockey Canada has clarified the number of incidents of alleged abuse, harassment or discrimination it has reported to Sport Canada since 2018, after the testimony of its president before the Commons heritage committee in late July mentioned fewer reported incidents than the figure Sport Canada officials had given MPs the day before.
Officials said they had only heard "rumours" about it a couple weeks before TSN published the results of its investigation, but reported it to Sport Canada immediately once the media report was out.When he first appeared before the committee on June 20, Hockey Canada president Scott Smith told the committee he was not prepared to speak about specific incidents.
Hockey Canada spokesperson Jeremy Knight replied that Smith believed that Julian's question was about open investigations only, not the total number of reports. No details on the results of those investigations or even the nature of these incidents — including whether they involved alleged assault or abuse, harassment or discrimination — have been made public by either Hockey Canada or Sport Canada.The incident reported by Hockey Canada on July 28, the day following its testimony at committee, was "not a formal case," a spokesperson for the minister of sport's office told CBC News.
The number of incidents reported to Sport Canada by hockey officials wasn't the only confusing aspect of their July 27 testimony.MPs also asked Hockey Canada officials exactly how much money had been paid to complainants of sexual abuse. The figure provided during the committee meeting — $8.
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