Spokesman Dominick Saillant wrote in an emailed statement to TSN that statistics about abuse complaints and sanctions are confidential, managed by provincial hockey federations, and not uniformly available.
“If you don’t collect and release this information, if you’re not transparent about it, you and your members across the country have no idea if there are any hot spots in the system,” said Donnelly, who has studied the subject of abuse in sports for decades. “If you’re not doing this, you can’t say with confidence that you have any idea whether there are problems in your system with racist or psychologically abusive coaches.
Other Canadian amateur sports organizations commission independent third parties to both accept and investigate credible abuse claims. Complaints to Swim Canada, for instance, are received by WhistleBlower Security Inc. in Vancouver, while Alpine Canada directs complainants to ITP Sport and Recreation in Ottawa.
The system, to be sure, is not perfect. As an example, five abuse complaints have been filed with Athletics Canada over the past two years by student athletes at Canadian universities. Those students told the federation they filed complaints because their schools did not take their complaints seriously, Bedford said.
In Canada, a growing number of national and provincial organizations are following suit. Gymnastics Canada began publishing the identities of coaches and other individuals sanctioned for misconduct in 2019. “There are great and wonderful words being said, but at the end of the day what action is taking place to keep young athletes as safe as possible?” Kennedy said. “The response needs to be different. We need to have full transparency. It’s a must.”
From 2008-09 to 2017-18, Hockey Canada received $34.8 million in federal government funding through the Department of Canadian Heritage’s sport support program, and another $3 million via its event hosting program, according to government data obtained through a freedom of information request. “The decision to withhold funding must be taken very seriously after careful consideration, as it could have negative impacts on the programming and activities of an organization, and most importantly, on the careers of athletes and coaches,” Savoie wrote.
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