National women’s soccer team members testify in Ottawa as standing committee on Canadian heritage seeks to understand the labour impasse with men’s and women’s national teams
Four members of the national women’s soccer team will testify Thursday in Ottawa, where parliamentarians are holding hearings into allegations of unequal treatment between the national men’s and women’s squads by Canada Soccer.
“We want to hear from the women’s team about what they’ve had access to, and what they haven’t, and then ask Canada Soccer about it as well,” said Liberal MP Anthony Housefather. “One of the main things we’re looking at is, are our sporting national federations being accountable enough, and transparent enough, with membership?”
The federation appeared willing to sue its own players, putting the world’s No. 6-ranked team in the position to play under protest or shell out perhaps millions of dollars in damages. That interim deal is separate from the overarching collective agreement, which has been in negotiation for months, between both national teams and Canada Soccer, which has promised to deliver pay equity. How FIFA prize money is shared – including the US$9-million earned by Canada’s men at the World Cup in Qatar – is key in settling that.
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