At a novice hockey tournament near Montreal won by an all-Indigenous team last year, parents of an opposing team called out racist words and yelled at players to go back where they came from. | CBCNews
Dre Wheesk and his teammates were subjected to racist taunts and questionable calls at a 2018 hockey tournament near Montreal, parents say. During the regular season, Dre plays for the South Porcupine Jr. Gold Kings, near Timmins, Ont.
'I felt sad for him. He loves hockey,' says Marissa Quachegan, Dre's mother, who is from the Mattagami First Nation. "I've never experienced that before," said another parent, Sam Scheck, who lives in Timmins and is from the Wikwemikong First Nation on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario.Scheck's son Sutton, who was 10 at the time, was playing for the Atom AAA Flamme Olympique team.
Donald Lucas, the coach of the Flamme Olympique, says he won't bring his teams to Quebec tournaments next year, because of the discrimination they faced. Lucas said he verbally complained to the tournament organizers, but little was done. He said it's up to tournament organizers and the associations above them to put a zero-tolerance policy in place and start kicking people out of tournaments.
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