‘BOGGLES THE MIND’: Justin Trudeau rips Hockey Canada officials
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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it’s clear Hockey Canada executives simply don’t get the seriousness of the scenario dealing with the group.
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Trudeau says it “boggles the thoughts” that previous and current board chairs are digging of their heels about changing your complete management crew on the sport’s governing physique.
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His feedback come a day after interim board chair Andrea Skinner instructed a Home of Commons committee that hockey is being made a “scapegoat” for the poisonous tradition that exists throughout society, together with in politics.
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She says the board doesn’t consider the senior management at Hockey Canada ought to be changed as a result of that dangers destabilizing all hockey applications throughout the nation.
Trudeau and Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge have each known as for Hockey Canada executives to step down after it was revealed the group has paid out $7.6 million to settle 9 sexual assault and abuse claims since 1989.
The group is dealing with accusations it lined up prison behaviour and used participant charges from leisure applications to create belief funds to cowl claims from sexual abuse lawsuits.
