Before the Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal commandeered media, public and political attention, as the game so often does, advocates for culture change in…
But she has so far ignored repeated calls from gymnastics advocates, in particular, to get to the root of systemic abuse issues in that sport and others. Continually treating the symptoms won’t lead to a cure.
The public flogging of those organizations surely will not occur in a vacuum. Sport Canada dispenses funds to many other national sport organizations, and most if not all of them have dealt with recurring issues of maltreatment. If a forensic audit of Hockey Canada is required to fix its systemic abuse issues, then other sport organizations are likely to benefit from the same level of inspection.
Koehler, who attended the hearings, has long advocated for a pan-sport judicial inquiry to expose the Canadian system’s critical flaws, but also to celebrate what it gets right. He has come away from Ottawa hopeful that the idea of an inquiry is building the necessary political momentum. Hockey Canada has the spotlight today because of the serious nature of the allegations, and because hockey always sucks up all the oxygen in the room. But the broader takeaways from those hearings are too obvious to ignore. Sport Canada is failing gymnasts, soccer and rugby players, boxers and winter sport athletes too.
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