Soccer participant Ciara McCormack and boxer Myriam Da Silva Rondeau may have the ground Thursday in Ottawa.
McCormack and Da Silva Rondeau are among the many ladies testifying earlier than members of Parliament Thursday because the Standing Committee on the Status of Women continues its hearings on the security of girls and ladies in sport.
McCormack is a former Vancouver Whitecaps participant and the whisteblower in opposition to Bob Birarda, a former Whitecaps and Soccer Canada coach.
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Birarda was not too long ago sentenced to 2 years much less a day for violating the “sexual integrity” of 4 gamers, three of whom had been underneath 18 on the time of the offences, which occurred between 1988 and 2008.
Da Silva Rondeau, a member of Canada’s Olympic workforce in Tokyo, was one of many dozens of boxers who wrote an open letter to Sport Canada a number of months in the past calling for the resignation of excessive efficiency director Daniel Trepanier. He stepped down 4 days later.
The standing of girls research comes after an outcry from a whole bunch of athletes in a number of sports activities similar to gymnastics and bobsled and skeleton concerning the poisonous environments of their nationwide federations.
Testimony started final week, with the outstanding theme being the necessity for a nationwide judicial inquiry into sport.
