Hockey Canada Releases Statement After Using Parents Money to Cover Sexual Assault Case
**This article contains S.A case info which may be triggering to some**
Recent news has been brought up as of late regarding a sexual assault investigation that took place in 2018 at the World Juniors, where 7 or 8 team Canada players are accused of sexually assaulting and also performing disturbing actions on the victims that were not granted by consent of the individual.
Tim Hortons, Canadian Tire, Scotiabank, Gatorade and more multi-million dollar companies have officially cut ties with hockey Canada on how they are handling this case and you should too!
*ALLEGEDLY* The court states and it has been stated that the female was in talks of going out for a drink with a Canadian Hockey player who was in town for the World Juniors which usually take place in the winter around Christmas time annually, the team Canada player than invited the girl back to his hotel and both engaged in sexual activity, where he than sent a text to his teammates telling them to come over and inside the room where the girl was. The girl never gave consent to the text message or the other 7 or 8 players showing up, and when they did they performed quite disgusting sexual actions on the female and did not let her leave the room.
Players on the 2018 team Canada World Juniors roster contain NHL superstars such as Cale Makar, Carter Hart, Jordan Kyrou, Robert Thomas, Brett Howden and more players who were then drafted into the National Hockey League. Dating about a month back news was released that Hockey Canada paid off the victim of the sexual assault with a settlement of $3.3 million dollars, which turned out to be funded by each and every parent who has registered there kid to play hockey through a Ontario OR Hockey Canada program. The victim and court re-opened the case as of late to identify if the sexual activity that was performed was consensually agreed upon or not, and at this time and since the court has been opened Hockey Canada has covered the names of these so called superstars who are being investigated for the sexual assault case in 2018.
TheGlobeMail.com recently did a study and search into where the funding of the $3.3 million came from for the settlement, and it is right out of parents pockets.
''Hockey Canada keeps a special multi-million dollar fund, which is fed by the registration fees of the players across the country, that it uses to pay out settlements in cases of alleged sexual assault without having to go through Hockey Canadas insurance company, and with minimal outside scrutiny.
This reserve fund has exceeded $15 million in recent years, a globe and mail investigation has found. Details of how it operates are not disclosed in Hockey Canada's annual report. Nor is listed in the organization's handbook for parents and players, which describes how registration fees are spent on Hockey Canadas insurance coverage, even though some of that money in channeled into the fund.
The money is used at Hockey Canada's discretion and can be deployed to write cheques to cover out-of-court settlements for a variety of claims, including sexual assault, that are deemed uninsurable or are settled without the participation of a insurance company.
No statements, announcements or decisions will fix the fact that hockey Canada has been hiding this case, there players and also using parents money that they used to register there children to pay off sexual assault victims performed by there players.
Here is the statement hockey Canada released:
While we respect that process, we also recognize sor actions cannot wait. Effective immediately, the National Equity Fund will no longer be used to settle sexual assault claims. Instead, it will be exclusively dedicated towards safety, wellness and equity
initiatives, as well as insurance across our organization - activities which comprised 98 per cent
its resources between 2014 and 2021.
This includes
counselling and treatment for players, concussion research grants to the Canadian Hockey League, criminal record checks of Hockey Canada staff, donations to Kids Help Phone, as well as a range of safety initiatives including insurance for players and
additional support for players who sustain physical
injuries. Hockey Canada also commits that, going
forward, all National Equity Fund proceeds from
registration fees will be dedicated to these safety,
wellness and equity initiatives, as well as insurance.
initiatives, as well as insurance across our organization - activities which comprised 98 per cent
its resources between 2014 and 2021.
This includes
counselling and treatment for players, concussion research grants to the Canadian Hockey League, criminal record checks of Hockey Canada staff, donations to Kids Help Phone, as well as a range of safety initiatives including insurance for players and
additional support for players who sustain physical
injuries. Hockey Canada also commits that, going
forward, all National Equity Fund proceeds from
registration fees will be dedicated to these safety,
wellness and equity initiatives, as well as insurance.
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