Former Olympic skier Allison Forsyth tells Heritage standing committee Canada’s safe sport crisis will only end if ‘we do something big’
Former Olympic skier Allison Forsyth told a parliamentary committee that Canada’s safe sport crisis will continue “unless we do something big.”
“The reality is that our sport system has for decades been accepting of and conducive to maltreatment and abuse,” said the 44-year-old from Nanaimo, B.C. While Forsyth spoke to the Status of Women committee in December about her experience as an athlete, her knowledge from working in the field of safe sport field was sought Thursday.
There have been calls for a judicial inquiry into Canadian sport, but there was disagreement on that subject Thursday.
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