What were the biggest takeaways from the first day of hearings on Tuesday into the Hockey Canada investigation and what do they mean? RealPDGrant breaks them down.
joining the chorus, you have to expect new leadership — or even a new structure entirely — is coming sooner rather than later for Hockey Canada.SPORT CANADA’S LEADERSHIP MIGHT BE, TOOUnder questioning by Conservative MP and committee vice-chair John Nater, Ruest testified that Sport Canada had been notified about the 2018 allegations surrounding Hockey Canada and did not hold back funding or take further action.
“No one’s asking Sport Canada themselves to investigate,” Nater said during the hearing. “You just mentioned they took note. They took note and wrote down a piece of paper and nothing more happened with that, it was kept in a filing cabinet somewhere and the minister of sport, who two weeks earlier had made a big deal about safe sport, wasn’t even informed. They took note and then did nothing.
Robitaille, a partner with Toronto-based law firm Henein Hutchison LLC, was the first on Tuesday to appear before the committee. She said her firm was contacted to conduct an investigation on the morning after the alleged incident took place in London on June 19, 2018. She said the law firm’s advice was to contact London police; Hockey Canada executives testified on June 20, 2022, that they contacted London police around “6 p.m. to 7 p.m.” that day.
After interviewing coaches and other staff members, Henein Hutchison submitted its “interim report” on Sept. 14, 2018. Over the next 18 months, the law firm continued to contact the woman through her attorney to be interviewed, but without her account and the criminal investigation closed by London police, it closed its own investigation.
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