The sport's national body has been under intense scrutiny since news broke in May of an alleged sexual assault following a 2018 gala in London, Ont., involving eight unidentified players.
An email obtained by The Canadian Press shows Hockey Canada detailed how Hockey Canada's National Equity Fund would be used for uninsured liabilities, including sexual abuse claims.
The email signed by Glen McCurdie, who was then Hockey Canada's vice-president of insurance and risk management, also detailed Hockey Canada's National Equity Fund — used for uninsured liabilities, including sexual abuse claims — which the organization has maintained since the "late 1990s." "We take great pride in what we have accomplished and continue to accomplish. When we were first faced with this situation, we had financial issues to deal with, in terms of unfunded claims coming at us from hockey players, professional and otherwise. We also had to deal with the establishment of a program our members could access in the event they had similar concerns that were less public in nature.
Kirsty Duncan, minister of science and sport from 2015 to 2019, said she didn't receive Hockey Canada's email addressed to Michael Paramathasan, a former senior policy adviser for the sport minister, when it was sent on Oct. 29, 2019. Duncan announced several safe-sport initiatives in March of 2019, including a national toll-free confidential helpline for victims and witnesses of abuse in sport. She also announced national sport organizations must have a safe-sport policy and make provisions for access to a third-party investigator.
"The concept of a third party investigation firm would have eliminated our capacity to actually protect the athletes in this situation, there is no doubt about this," he wrote, adding that Hockey Canada believes in tailored solutions to specific problems, and that a uniform process for every sport would be detrimental to an NSO's ability to deal with certain situations.
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