Spotlight on Canadian hockey culture is part of a possible decline from Thursday’s decision, with acquitting five players of sexual assault allegations.
Hockey Canada vowed to deal with “toxic behavior in many corners of the game” in 2022.
At that time, the organization 2018 was in fire to use a portion of the registration fee to handle allegations of sexual harassment against members of the Canadian Junior Mains Hockey Team and to settle the cases.
Michael McLeod, Carter Heart, Alex Forton, Dalon Down and Cal Foot All allegations were acquitted In a court in London, Onts on Thursday. Four of the five were NHL players when he was arrested in 2024.
The case sent shock waves to Canadian hockey and reached the House of Commons, where members of Parliament grills the officials of Hockey Canada who they knew and did.
Did all the things about changing hockey culture go back with the judge’s decision on Thursday?
“The concern is that the community will look at this decision, and they would say that there is no need to change hockey culture, as these people have done nothing wrong,” said a lawyer, a lawyer and a survivor of sexual abuse by Hockey Coach Graham James.
“The legal system does not address much more fundamental, and it is what people should have done in that room. If there is one thing that is undisputed, in that room that night, there was the absence of leadership. There was absence of character. No one said at any time, ‘I don’t care what she is saying, it is wrong. We need to stop.’
“The character’s failure means that someone should go to jail? It is not. It is expected to have that it is coming out of this, hockey, and society on a large scale, will feel that you need to think about your actions and avoid keeping yourself in such situations and act with the character, as the situation allows you to work. Just because you can do not do it.”
When TSN reported allegations from him in 2022 and a civil settlement, Hockey Canada’s feet were not only kept in the fire, as the players were in the night to celebrate the team’s victory at the 2018 World Junior Championship.
The revelation removed the lid on other hockey issues such as racism, hedging, discrimination and homophobia. The sponsors later left hockey Canada, but some have returned since then.
Scott Smith resigned as the President and Chief Executive Officer and was eventually replaced by Catherine Henderson in 2023.
Hockey Canada published a slate of reforms in 2022, including compulsory training for athletes and employees on sexual violence and consent.
The organization held a 2023 summit in Calgary to address toxic manhood in hockey, and analyzed unhealthy results in another hockey in 2024 in Ottawa.
Gilholi said, “The problem will be that coming out of this decision, a response would be that ‘Hockey Canada was right, the board should not go down, these people did nothing wrong.”
“It is not a decision what this decision says. The decision says that those boys are not guilty of crimes that have been charged them. This is that all the good changes within the sports community and society are good and needed, and need to emphasize, and the change needs to continue.
“Of course, now there will be a real fear that that change will not be pressed as much as it should be.”
Hockey Canada stated that Henderson was not available for an interview on Thursday, and offered a list of changes and reforms applicable from his action plan.
“While there has been significant progress since 2022, more work has to be done and we will remain transparent and accountable to Canadians as we make systemic changes within our national winter game,” it said in a statement.
“Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Attacks in Canada’s National Sports” were in courthouse in London. Laura Robinson’s 1998 book investigated sexual harassment and Hansing in junior hockey culture.
“I don’t think a lot has changed,” he said.
Robinson explains that when men are involved in decision making around women’s national teams, coach and manager canada assigns men’s under -20 teams that are particularly male and are from junior men’s leagues.
“If Hockey Canada really wanted to really wanted to change things, you need a change in leadership everywhere,” Robinson said.
“Can there not be a woman in Canada who can be coach or coaching staff in Hockey Canada at the Olympics?
“I am sure they are going to women with women’s team, but it needs to change those who need to change. We do not have the same with women athletes.”
“Sexual violence and misunderstanding men are deeply contained in ice hockey,” said an open letter for a parliamentary committee signed by Canadian Sports Minister and 28 sports academics of 21 universities.
Thursday’s decision did not change the confidence of Laurel Walzak, Associate Professor of Toronto Metropolitan University, that there is a need to change culture in hockey.
“I am still really worried because I was in 2022, maybe that was the same concern,” he said. “I signed a letter as a very concerned person related to hockey in Canada.
“I go back to this letter, and I think we need to write another letter. We can actually copy and paste it.
“We need to continue to keep a really close watch on hockey Canada from national level, provincial level, local level, all levels and ask what is happening.
A advocacy group for the survivors of the game abuse said in Thursday’s legal judgment, “Risk and the risks that strengthen the culture of silence have fought to disintegrate people from sexual violence in sports for a long time.”
“We are worried that this decision will have a cool effect,” athletes in a statement empower the managing director and former gymnast Amelia Cline.
“The remaining people who look at the case may now feel even more reluctant to speak, fear that their pain will be minimized, their experiences have become invalid, and it is almost impossible to get justice.”
