Hockey Canada releases slate of candidates to form new board of directors | CBC Sports

Hockey Canada has named its slate of candidates to fill the 9 vacant positions on its board of administrators on a one-year time period.

The group’s members will maintain a vote Saturday on whether or not to just accept or reject all the slate, which incorporates 5 girls and 4 males.

Hockey Canada’s board stepped down in October as a part of the fallout from its dealing with of sexual assault allegations towards former members of two of its world junior groups.

Hugh L. Fraser, a retired decide with almost three many years of expertise on the Ontario courtroom of justice, has been nominated as board chair.

Cassie Campbell-Pascall, a three-time Olympian who captained Canada’s girls’s workforce to gold medals in 2002 and 2006, is among the many eight board members nominated.

“We are grateful to the more than 550 candidates who applied to help guide the change at Hockey Canada,” mentioned Michael Bruni, chair of the nominating committee.

“The nominees we’ve put forward represent the very best of Canadian society: bringing together the knowledge and experience necessary to create a new era in hockey that focuses on governance and cultural evolution.”

Fraser, who as born in Kingston, Jamaica and grew up in Kingston, Ont., has been an arbitrator on the Court of Arbitration for Sport since 1995 and served on the primary advert hoc courtroom on the Olympic Games in 1996.

The different nominees are Grant Borbridge, Julie Duranceau, Dave Evans, Marni Fullerton, Jonathan F. Goldbloom, Marian Jacko and Andrea Poole.