OTTAWA — Michel Ruest, a senior director of Sport Canada, says the federal organization was made aware of an alleged sexual assault involving members of T
eam Canada’s world junior hockey team in late June 2018, but did not follow up with Hockey Canada at the time.
A lawyer from the firm conducting a third-party investigation into the allegations told MPs on the committee that she is unable to answer all of their questions. Hockey Canada has been under intense scrutiny since news of its settlement in response to the complainant’s lawsuit was first reported in May, and that grew as another allegation related to the 2003 team surfaced last week.
When Robitaille learned through the complainant’s lawyer that she planned to participate, she contacted Hockey Canada and asked for a mandate to reopen the investigation. Details of the settlement, including the identities of the complainant and the men involved, have not been made public. Second, she said, “As a matter of due process I could not interview players without giving them fair notice of what was alleged against them.”
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