TORONTO — As a former gymnast who has seen the darker side of that sport, Kirsty Duncan’s mandate was to try to eradicate abuse in Canadian sport.
Duncan, who was Canada’s sport minister from 2015 to ’19, is angry she wasn’t informed by either Hockey Canada or Sport Canada about the assault allegations against the world junior team in 2018.
“Did Hockey Canada change? The answer is no. I think they’ve played right around the edges. I think they’ve done bits and pieces. But I think they’ve failed to change the culture over 30 years. And why is this time different, if it’s the same leadership?” “I know personally what it feels like to be told to eat Jell-O, laxatives, toilet paper, and water pills to ‘make weight,’ and to be repeatedly verbally abused by other coaches, judges, and parents,” Duncan wrote.
“ get one childhood,” she said. “There was nothing I thought was more important than to become a coach, I couldn’t wait to become a coach and you have young athletes, you’ve got these little guys, the four-year-olds and they look at you with those big trusting eyes. How can you not do everything you can to protect them?”
Duncan said she received major pushback when trying to introduce safe-sport initiatives, which included 13 safe-sport summits across the country, creating a universal code of conduct, a phone-in tip line, an advisory group of experts on safe sport, and a gender equity research hub.
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