Hockey Canada caught in new alleged sex scandal!

As the National Hockey League pursues its investigation into an alleged 2018 sexual assault involving eight former Canadian Hockey League players, it appears like they will have more investigating on their agenda.

On Friday, Hockey Canada made a statement about the information they received from TSN’s Rick Westhead, learning of an alleged group sexual assault from 2003 involving members of the 2002-03 National Junior Team.

“Mr. Westhead informed Hockey Canada he has spoken to multiple witnesses who provided him with explicit descriptions of an assault, following an interview with Conservative MP John Nater who is in possession of the same or similar information.”

This is the rest of the statement from Hockey Canada:

"The details in Mr. Westhead’s email were deeply disturbing and Hockey Canada immediately contacted Halifax Regional Police, as Halifax was the co-host city of the 2003 IIHF World Junior Championship, and also notified Sport Canada of the information shared with us. We have urged Mr. Westhead to immediately speak with police and to encourage his sources to do the same. We also implore MP Nater to contact the authorities with any information he or his office has received on this alleged group sexual assault.

Hockey Canada is committed to bringing an end to the culture of silence in hockey. That is why we are publicly calling for anyone with knowledge of this incident to come forward to police, and we are being transparent in how we learned of this alleged assault and the steps we are taking to address it.

Prior to receiving Mr. Westhead’s email, two weeks ago, Hockey Canada staff heard a rumour about “something bad at the 2003 World Juniors” but were given no details of any sort. We immediately reported this information to Sport Canada. In order to learn more, Hockey Canada hired a third-party investigator to try to find more information. They were unable to learn anything before we received the details mentioned above in an email from Mr. Westhead.

We believe the alleged incident from 2003 should be investigated by the authorities, and we urge the police to open an investigation into this disturbing situation. Hockey Canada will cooperate with and support the authorities in every way we can, and we once again urge anyone who may have relevant information about this alleged incident to contact Halifax police immediately."

When details about the alleged incident at a Hockey Canada Foundation gala and golf event in the city in June of 2018 emerged, Westhead was informed by member of the Parlement Kevin Waugh that since “Hockey Canada executives testified 10 days ago, he’s been contacted by 3 people who haven’t shared their stories before now who say they were sexually assaulted in connection with hockey.”

“No doubt there will be more,” he said then.

This is more.