Canadian Heritage Committee invites Canada Soccer CEO to testify in March

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Published 18.02.2023

Canadian Heritage Committee invites Canada Soccer CEO to testify in March

The House of Commons’ heritage committee is inviting the management of Canada Soccer to testify in early March, placing the governing physique beneath scrutiny over allegations of unequal remedy of the nationwide girls’s soccer crew and allegations of sexual abuse inside soccer packages.

At a gathering Thursday on the examine on Safe Sport in Canada, the committee adopted a movement put ahead by NDP MP Peter Julian for a listening to with Canada Soccer’s “current president and CEO.”

The movement permits for a summons to be issued if the invitation is declined.

Nick Bontis is the president of Canada Soccer, and Earl Cochrane is the overall secretary.

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The movement comes after Liberal MP Anthony Housefather stated Monday that the parliamentary committee has already requested the minutes of Canada Soccer’s board and needed to query the governing physique in a future assembly.

The Canadian girls are collaborating on the SheBelieves Cup in Orlando, Fla., amid an deadlock with Canada Soccer.

The gamers boycotted follow Saturday and stated they’d not participate within the match till their grievances have been addressed. They reluctantly returned to coaching Sunday after Canada Soccer threatened them with authorized motion, saying the gamers weren’t in a authorized place to strike.

The Canadian girls are demanding the identical backing in making ready for this summer season’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand that the boys obtained final yr earlier than Qatar, and each the boys’s and ladies’s soccer groups need extra transparency with regards to Canada Soccer’s funds.

Canada Soccer additionally got here beneath hearth at a current assembly of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women for its dealing with of allegations in opposition to former U-20 girls’s crew coach Bob Birarda, who pleaded responsible final February to a few counts of sexual assault and one rely of sexual touching involving 4 gamers.

Former girls’s crew captain Andrea Neil informed members of Parliament that Canada Soccer didn’t correctly deal with the gamers’ allegations and enabled Birarda to proceed teaching ladies after he was dismissed by each the nationwide sports activities group and the Vancouver Whitecaps in 2008.

“Our national federation had completely failed at safeguarding, irresponsibly shifting his predatory behaviour on,” Neil stated.