In 2024, steps were taken to make American sports safer, but what was the end result? A federal commission launched cross-country people consultations, launched an online registry of those who have been disciplined or under investigation for abusive behavior in sports, and made an abrupt change in how handling potential complaints are handled. Canada is said to be a long way from the cultural shift that is responsible for the exhaustion of dangerous behavior in the game. ” The development is definitely slower and a slippery ride”, said Erin Willson, an Olympic musical diver and past president of AthletesCan, which provides a unified message for national-team players. The great question I’ve been wrestling with perhaps for the past seven or eight years is how do we change the game society? What are we valuing and what are we praising in terms of the principles of activity? I do think that everything descends from it.” It’s all right if we can tell one another to treat people much, but when the single thing we’re celebrating is winning, we’re not going to be able to change,” I believe. ” Bruce Kidd, a University of Toronto professor emeritus in sport and public policy, gives Canada a middling grade in safe sport for 2024″ I would say we’re in the C-plus territory,” said Kidd, a former runner who represented Canada at the 1964 Olympics “.There is a universal code of conduct to prevent and eliminate maltreatment and abuse, the UCCMS. There’s still way, way, way too many people who don’t know that. ” 0: 41
A court will hear the legal arguments of five hockey players in the World Juniors sex assault case. A lawyer and former elite gymnast Amelia Cline, a lawyer and former professional gymnast, claims that despite increased awareness, there is a problem with the sport that needs to be fixed. You won’t see any change when those people are permitted to continue in this system with impunity. Even with all of these policies, all of these procedures, and all of the public’s awareness of these issues, it seems to you that the change isn’t actually permeating the system, right? It’s just sort of surface-level. It’s not actually going where it needs to go. Unfortunately, we’re still in that space “.After the explosive headlines of 2022 and 2023, when athletes shared tearful testimonies before parliamentary committees about sexual, physical, and verbal abuse, and Hockey Canada faced scrutiny over its handling of sexual assault allegations against members of the 2018 national junior men’s team, 2024 was a year of reckoning. A searchable database of people who were sanctioned or whose eligibility to play sports was restricted was made available by the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner ( OSIC ) in March. As of December, the registry listed eight sanctioned individuals and 18 under provisional restrictions. Cline, who spoke to parliamentary committees about the physical and verbal abuse she experienced as a young athlete, claimed that” OSIC’s registry still only covers the national level.” ” Many grassroots incidents are occurring without people knowing about them,” he said. Some of the people we’ve worked with don’t realize that their own coach in their own club is being investigated because it has been so muddled up in the media. ” 0: 49
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The Future of Sport in Canada Commission, which was announced by then-Sports Minister Carla Qualtrough in December 2023, began public consultations in Toronto in October and will conclude on Jan. 31 in Victoria. The commission’s mandate is to produce recommendations in 2025 to make sport safer and improve systems through elements such as culture, policy, funding, governance, reporting and accountability”.The appointment of the Future in Sport Commission was a good thing, although it moved slowly,” Kidd said. Willson called the commission” a step forward. It empowers many athletes to express their experiences in a very thoughtful way, she said. However, the political will to implement the commission’s recommendations is unclear, following Qualtrough’s announcement that she will not seek re-election and the appointment of Terry Duguid as the next sports minister on Friday. Since Qualtrough’s first stint as minister from 2015 to 2017, the sports portfolio has undergone six leadership changes.” Sport has a status in the cabinet that is proportionate with the enormous challenges,” said Kidd. 2: 13
Safety concerns raised over proposed’ Enhanced Games ‘ where doping is allowedQualtrough also announced that three years into its existence, OSIC will move in 2025 under the umbrella of the Canadian Centre For Ethics in Sport, which administers drug testing in Canada under the World Anti-Doping Agency’s code. The minister claimed in an interview earlier this year that the CCES board was capable of streamlining the complaint and sanctioning process and that the move could satisfy those who felt the complaints body needed to be more independent.” Over the course of a year and a half, or two, it became clear there would be a better way to deliver those functions, those services, things like the athlete tip line, the investigation, the sanctioning… the things that OSIC does, that could perhaps address both the perceived and actual challenges those functions were facing in They’ve got this established organizational infrastructure … that they can draw upon to fulfil those responsibilities. Williamson expressed concern about safe-sport fatigue because “everyone is sort of over it to some degree or it seems that way. “” There are still a lot of issues that need to be solved,” she said.
