Kirsty Duncan said more work needs to be done to make sports safer for children across the country.
Soccer players Ciara McCormack and Andrea Neil, along with Olympic boxer Myriam Da Silva Rondeau and fencer Emily Mason echoed each other in pushing for an inquiry into the handling of abuse and mismanagement at their respective sporting organizations and across the country.
McCormack, who wrote about the abuses committed by former Vancouver Whitecaps and Canadian women’s soccer head coach Bob Birarda, said she’s worried about her safety given her past comments about abuse in Canada Soccer. Birarda was sentenced to nearly 16 months in jail in 2022 for sex offences that “immeasurably harmed” four female teenage athletes.
“My goal is to have an environment that sport participants can testify and share their experiences and their recommendations,” the minister told reporters.Article content“With every passing day, there are more children who are placed into these environments. More children who are experiencing the same things that we have and continue to every single day that a national inquiry is not called and we’re not taking action.
Rondeau told a parliamentary committee in 2022 that she is facing a lawsuit from the director of high performance at the Canadian Boxing Federation for comments she posted on social media about alleged misconduct.Article content
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