Hockey Canada used a fund that was fed by registration fees to settle sexual-assault lawsuits without involving its insurance company
’s National Equity Fund, but had no idea that some of the money was used to settle alleged sexual-assault claims outside of the court system, as The Globe and Mail revealed last week.
The National Equity Fund had exceeded $15-million in recent years, but its use on sexual-assault claims was not disclosed in Hockey Canada’s annual report or its financial filings, nor was it listed in the organization’s handbook for parents and players on the various forms of insurance provided by their registration fees.
“I share the parents’ indignation. There are enrolment fees that went to pay for that,” Ms. St-Onge said. “I learned that through the media. I think that Hockey Canada has an obligation to be transparent to the people who are giving them money, whether that’s the parents of children who play hockey, or sponsors, or the Canadian public through federal funding.”
, which is set up as an emergency medical and dental fund, to pay expenses on its insurance policies for directors and officers . Those policies are used, among other things, to shield Hockey Canada officials from liability in various kinds of lawsuits. However, lawyers representing the injured player allege that this was done by Hockey Canada in the past, based on evidence gathered in the case.
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