Heritage Committee member and NDP MP Niki Ashton tells TSN Senior Correspondent that she has filed a motion to seek the testimony of Canada Soccer national senior team coaches in a search for answers about spying practices.
New Democratic Party MP Niki Ashton says she has filed a motion to fellow members of the federal Heritage Committee to seek the testimony of Canada Soccer national senior team coaches in a search for answers about whether spying on the closed practices of opposing teams has been a systemic practice.
Canada advanced to the knockout stage of the Olympic tournament despite the scandal and lost to Germany on Saturday. Off the pitch, Canada Soccer said that it hired Sonia Regenbogen, a lawyer with the Toronto law firm Mathews Dinsdale, to investigate the allegations of cheating. Ashton said she would also like for the committee to invite officials with Canada Soccer and FIFA to testify. Her motion would be adopted if a majority of the 12-member committee agrees.
In 2022, the Heritage Committee opened a study of Hockey Canada’s response to a 2018 allegation of sexual assault that was made by a woman in London, Ont. The woman alleged she had been assaulted by eight players on Canada’s 2018 World Juniors team following a golf and gala event in June 2018. “In the Hockey Canada case, the lawyers backed off when London police dropped the case,” Waugh said. “The lawyers didn’t finish their job. We need to get Canada Soccer people and Sport Canada in here to answer questions about who knew what and when.”
Waugh said if a prospective witness declines an invitation to testify, the committee can issue a subpoena demanding they appear.
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