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.
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-hockey-canada-fund-sexual-assault-allegations/