The committee’s MPs expressed widespread disappointment in Canada Soccer and lauded the women’s team’s successes
Prominent members of the national women’s soccer team took their governing body to task Thursday in a high-profile hearing in Ottawa, where the players expressed frustration over their long fight to achieve gender equality in the sport, amid a “culture of secrecy and obstruction” at Canada Soccer, which they say has left them negotiating in the dark.
Players Janine Beckie, Sophie Schmidt and Quinn, who goes by one name, also testified about the difficulty of learning, in 2021, that men’s national team players were earning more than five times more than them – and had received more robust support. In its statement Thursday, Canada Soccer revealed details of its proposed collective bargaining agreement with both the men’s and women’s national teams, which would see both earn the same amount for playing a 90-minute match and share equally in pooled competition prize money.
Asked if Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge had reached out, Quinn said that her office had asked what would be helpful to the team. Conservative MP Kevin Waugh picked up on this, remarking: “What would be ‘helpful?’ Equity! What the hell! I mean that’s a pretty simple ask, isn’t it? It’s 2023 today. You’ve made the sport what it is in this country.”
The players also expressed concern with Canada Soccer’s new leadership. After Bontis stepped down, Charmaine Crooks, who was previously the organization’s vice-president, took over as acting president.
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