Former Ontario chief justice Lise Maisonneuve will lead the Future of Sport in Canada Commission.
Canadian sports activities minister Carla Qualtrough additionally introduced Thursday that Noni Classen and Andrew Pipe will be Maisonneuve’s advisers.
The commission’s mandate is to delve into issues amid what Qualtrough and her predecessor Pascale St-Onge have referred to as a safe-sport disaster in Canada.
The commission has an 18-month mandate and can seek the advice of with sport our bodies and survivors of abuse on how to enhance the nationwide sport system. It will produce two studies and maintain a nationwide summit to talk about preliminary findings.
Some former athletes, lecturers and former sports activities minister Kirsty Duncan have referred to as for a public inquiry.
This yr’s federal finances supplied $10.6 million over two years to the commission.
Maisonneuve’s eight-yr time period as Ontario chief justice resulted in May 2023. The decide from Timmins, Ont., was the second lady appointed to that place.
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Ottawa’s Pipe was the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport chair from 1996 to 2004, and continues to function previous chair and medical science adviser.
Winnipeg’s Classen is the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s director of training.
“We are committed to examining carefully the sport system in Canada and identifying the structures and processes that will support a values-based, safe sport system for all,” Maisonneuve mentioned in an announcement Thursday.
Qualtrough introduced Dec. 11 {that a} commission would sort out safe-sport issues, however stopped wanting a public inquiry.
An inquiry operates beneath phrases set within the Inquiries Act and requires cupboard approval. Often led by judges, commissioners have energy to subpoena witnesses, take proof beneath oath and request paperwork.
Qualtrough has in contrast the sport commission’s work to that of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which between 2007 and 2015 investigated hurt triggered by residential faculties, and proposed each options to that hurt and prevention of additional abuse of Indigenous Peoples.
“We need to change the culture of sport in Canada,” Qualtrough mentioned in an announcement.
“Our sport system failed victims and survivors of abuse and maltreatment, including children. We must understand how and why this happened, and we must take action to prevent it from happening in the future.
“The commission needs to hear from all Canadians — those within the sport system and those from other fields who can share new ideas, approaches and solutions. This will help ensure that all Canadians have access to safe and inclusive sport.”
Athletes testified in parliamentary committee hearings in 2022 and early 2023 about bodily, psychological and sexual abuse they skilled of their sport.
MPs have been instructed the strain on nationwide sports activities organizations to produce medals, and get funding to do this, contributed to poisonous environments through which athlete welfare took a again seat.
Revelations that Hockey Canada had reached a settlement with a girl alleging she was sexually assaulted by members of the 2018 Canadian junior males’s hockey crew at a gala, and that Hockey Canada used a portion of registration charges to pay out such settlements, amplified requires sport tradition change.
Qualtrough was reappointed sports activities minister in 2023 after her first stint within the portfolio between 2015 and 2017.
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