Hockey Canada will have to explain itself to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage after a gang rape by junior players, recently revealed in broad daylight, ended in an amicable settlement.
The Bloc Québécois presented a motion Thursday after question period indicating to the Speaker of the House of Commons that there was unanimous consent of elected officials to convene the association, which he only had to see.
Earlier in the day, the Minister of Sports, Pascale St-Onge, said she was “shocked and angry” and that a financial audit will be carried out to ensure that public funds have not been used to “hide” history, which she said would run counter to the funding agreement between Hockey Canada and Sport Canada.
“The other thing Canadians want to know is how such a big sporting organization in Canada has ensured that the players who have these charges against them are not accountable for their actions and that there are several of them who are in the NHL today,” she added.
According to information from the TSN network, a woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by eight Canadian Hockey League players has dropped a lawsuit after reaching an agreement.
In the court documents cited, the young woman alleges that she was sexually assaulted several times in a hotel room after a Hockey Canada gala in June 2018.
Bloc sports critic Sébastien Lemire, who introduced the motion, said he was “outraged” when he entered the Commons.
“How do we learn that four years after the fact, he launched. Have sex scandal allegations involving Hockey Canada players been covered up? »
According to him, the questions go much further than the financial stake. “There are also criminal charges in there, then we don’t try to hide people because they may be stars today,” he said.