Hockey Canada's federal funding restoration is under fire from opposition MPs, who believe the decision was premature and lacked conditions to protect victims.
The sporting body had its funding frozen by sport minister Pascale St-Onge since June 22, 2022. St-Onge overturned that decision -- with conditions -- on Sunday before the Canadian women's team's gold-medal game against the U.S. in Brampton, Ont.Capital Dispatch: Sign up for in-depth political coverage of Parliament Hill
"It was the government trying to cover up what they didn't do, I think, in 2018. And that was Sport Canada and the minister at the time, should've suspended the funding back then when this allegation started.""It's a very premature decision," he said. "Hockey Canada hasn't met all of the obligations that they've already made.
"I'm tired of those non-disclosure agreements, and not only in hockey, in every sport that we have in this country," he said. "We're not getting anywhere when you start these non-disclosure agreements and there's money flowing back and forth. "We need to know that the mentality has changed, that the culture is being addressed," he said. "We put extremely clear expectations before Hockey Canada, before we would restore funding to them.
Bloc Quebecois MP Sebastien Lemire said the report from Heinen Hutchison Robitaille LLP has not been made public and that they don't have the recommendations from it. Hockey Canada's overall need for government funding -- or lack thereof -- was also questioned in the meeting.
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