After the ridiculous comments from Hockey Canada Interim board chair Andrea Skinner on Tuesday, something has finally been done to make the organization pay.
Skinner stated that the removal of Hockey Canada’s top executives would be a mistake that could lead to chaos that impacts even minor hockey. On top of that, she said that the organization has the right leaders in place, “an excellent reputation” and that it has become the victim of “substantial misinformation and unduly cynical attacks” from the media.
Even worse, Canadian Hockey League president Dan MacKenzie admitted under oath yesterday that Hockey Canada has stopped trying to determine which players from the 2018 World Junior team have been implicated in allegations. In MacKenzie’s own words, “the matter is now settled” without knowing who or what was even done.
Hockey Québec had enough.
On Wednesday morning, it was confirmed that Hockey Québec passed a resolution of no confidence in Hockey Canada and said it would be suspending all transfers of registration fees usually paid to the national organization.
Earlier this year it was uncovered that Hockey Canada used child registration fees to create a “slush fund” of cash to pay off alleged victims of sexual abuse, and just yesterday The Globe and Mail uncovered the fact that Hockey Canada actually had an additional such account.
It’s no surprise that MPs from all of the country’s major political parties are calling for Hockey Canada’s executive staff to resign, but finally this move from Hockey Québec gets the ball rolling.
