Canadian Government Freezing Hockey Canada Funding- (2018 Canada World Jr Team Alleged Sexual Assault)

[UrbanImpact]

Canadian Government is freezing any funds for Hockey Canada until Hockey Canada agrees to sign up with an independent agency that can investigate reports of abuse of inappropriate behavior moving forward.

This stems from a woman who filed a 3.55 million dollar lawsuit against 8 CHL players who were also members the 2018 Team Canada World Junior Team. The woman alleges that she was sexually assaulted in London Ontario following a Team Gala in 2018. Hockey Canada eventually settled with the woman, and the charges were dropped.

Canadian government called Hockey Canada to testify a few days ago in regards to where the settlement money came from to ensure it wasnt from Government funding money aka public tax payer money. Canadian Government was evidently unhappy with the results of their investigation , thus freezing the funding to Hockey Canada. Last year alone, Hockey Canada received 18 million dollars of funding from the government.

Side note: The 2018 Team Canada team is filled with some prominent players. Im not surprised Team Canada settled the lawsuit within 2 weeks of the lawsuit being filed.

Pos.	No.	Player	Team	NHL Rights
GK	1	Colton Point	Colgate University	Dallas Stars
GK	31	Carter Hart	Everett Silvertips	Philadelphia Flyers
D	2	Jake Bean	Calgary Hitmen	Carolina Hurricanes
D	3	Conor Timmins	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	Colorado Avalanche
D	6	Callan Foote	Kelowna Rockets	Tampa Bay Lightning
D	7	Cale Makar	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Colorado Avalanche
D	8	Dante Fabbro – A	Boston University	Nashville Predators
D	10	Kale Clague – A	Brandon Wheat Kings	Los Angeles Kings
D	28	Victor Mete – A	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Canadiens
F	9	Dillon Dubé – C	Kelowna Rockets	Calgary Flames
F	11	Jonah Gadjovich	Owen Sound Attack	Vancouver Canucks
F	12	Boris Katchouk	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	Tampa Bay Lightning
F	14	Maxime Comtois	Victoriaville Tigres	Anaheim Ducks
F	16	Taylor Raddysh	Erie Otters	Tampa Bay Lightning
F	17	Tyler Steenbergen	Swift Current Broncos	Arizona Coyotes
F	19	Drake Batherson	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles	Ottawa Senators
F	20	Michael McLeod	Mississauga Steelheads	New Jersey Devils
F	21	Brett Howden	Moose Jaw Warriors	Tampa Bay Lightning
F	23	Sam Steel	Regina Pats	Anaheim Ducks
F	24	Alex Formenton	London Knights	Ottawa Senators
F	25	Jordan Kyrou	Sarnia Sting	St. Louis Blues
F	27	Robert Thomas	London Knights	St. Louis Blues

Federal government freezing Hockey Canada’s funding - TSN.ca

Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge tells TSN’s Rick Westhead the organization won’t receive funds until it signs up with a new federal agency that has the power to independently receive and investigate abuse complaints and issue sanctions for inappropriate behaviour.

www.tsn.ca

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[Divine]

I think it's completely fair. They want to assure no public funding went to the settlement.

The issue though is, if they're trying to get to the bottom of who the players were it seems neither the victim or lawyers ever identified the players, including in the lawsuit. The players were named as John Doe's - so unless the players themselves admit to it, I don't know how far an investigation can get unless she agrees to come forward with the names.

 

[MXD]

I think it's completely fair. They want to assure no public funding went to the settlement.

The issue though is, if they're trying to get to the bottom of who the players were it seems neither the victim or lawyers ever identified the players, including in the lawsuit. The players were named as John Doe's - so unless the players themselves admit to it, I don't know how far an investigation can get unless she agrees to come forward with the names.

Players who were part of these events can't talk about it (well, almost certainly can't), as per Settlement.
Players who weren't absolutely aren't bound by that Settlement.

If I were the Sens (because that's a low-hanging fruit, being in Ottawa and all), I absolutely ask Formenton and Batherson to deny their involvement. (Mete is gone as far as I'm concerned, and it's been established that he doesn't have anything to do with this).

 

[surixon]

Canadian Government is freezing any funds for Hockey Canada until Hockey Canada agrees to sign up with an independent agency that can investigate reports of abuse of inappropriate behavior moving forward.

This stems from a woman who filed a 3.55 million dollar lawsuit against 8 players from the 2018 Team Canada World Junior Team. The woman alleges that she was sexually assaulted in London Ontario following a Team Gala in 2018. Hockey Canada eventually settled with the woman, and the charges were dropped.

Canadian government called Hockey Canada to testify a few days ago in regards to where the settlement came from to ensure it was from Government funding money aka public tax payer money. Canadian Government was of evidently unhappy with the results of their investigation , thus freezing and funding to Hockey Canada. Last year alone, Hockey Canada received 18 million dollars of funding from the government.

Side note: The 2018 Team Canada team is filled with some prominent players. Im not surprised Team Canada settled the lawsuit within 2 weeks of the lawsuit being filed.

Pos.	No.	Player	Team	NHL Rights
GK	1	Colton Point	Colgate University	Dallas Stars
GK	31	Carter Hart	Everett Silvertips	Philadelphia Flyers
D	2	Jake Bean	Calgary Hitmen	Carolina Hurricanes
D	3	Conor Timmins	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	Colorado Avalanche
D	6	Callan Foote	Kelowna Rockets	Tampa Bay Lightning
D	7	Cale Makar	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Colorado Avalanche
D	8	Dante Fabbro – A	Boston University	Nashville Predators
D	10	Kale Clague – A	Brandon Wheat Kings	Los Angeles Kings
D	28	Victor Mete – A	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Canadiens
F	9	Dillon Dubé – C	Kelowna Rockets	Calgary Flames
F	11	Jonah Gadjovich	Owen Sound Attack	Vancouver Canucks
F	12	Boris Katchouk	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	Tampa Bay Lightning
F	14	Maxime Comtois	Victoriaville Tigres	Anaheim Ducks
F	16	Taylor Raddysh	Erie Otters	Tampa Bay Lightning
F	17	Tyler Steenbergen	Swift Current Broncos	Arizona Coyotes
F	19	Drake Batherson	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles	Ottawa Senators
F	20	Michael McLeod	Mississauga Steelheads	New Jersey Devils
F	21	Brett Howden	Moose Jaw Warriors	Tampa Bay Lightning
F	23	Sam Steel	Regina Pats	Anaheim Ducks
F	24	Alex Formenton	London Knights	Ottawa Senators
F	25	Jordan Kyrou	Sarnia Sting	St. Louis Blues
F	27	Robert Thomas	London Knights	St. Louis Blues

Federal government freezing Hockey Canada’s funding - TSN.ca

Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge tells TSN’s Rick Westhead the organization won’t receive funds until it signs up with a new federal agency that has the power to independently receive and investigate abuse complaints and issue sanctions for inappropriate behaviour.

www.tsn.ca

I think there are numerous areas where they dropped the ball but a fail to see how settling the lawsuit in a timely manner is an issue. The victim wanted financial compensation and Team Canada instead of denying and dragging this out for years in an expensive court case moved to quickly settle with her. In a time where victims aren't often heard or believed it certainly appears as though this one was believed which I think is a positive.

Obviously Hockey Canada needs to update its policies and be more transparent with their reporting etc and I applaud the government for ensuring they do so. They also need to pay this level of scrutiny to the other sports federations in this country as well though as ita not just hockey thay is toxic.

On the matter of the 8 John Doe's I put more blame on the police for not being able to properly uncover and charge those individuals then I do on Hockey Canada.

 

[GermanSpitfire]

Pretty easy fix for Hockey Canada.

These players need to preach abstinence for two weeks when playing for TC.

 

[Suntouchable13]

I think it's completely fair. They want to assure no public funding went to the settlement.

The issue though is, if they're trying to get to the bottom of who the players were it seems neither the victim or lawyers ever identified the players, including in the lawsuit. The players were named as John Doe's - so unless the players themselves admit to it, I don't know how far an investigation can get unless she agrees to come forward with the names.

Also, it is possible that the victim wouldn’t even know the names of all 8 players. I highly doubt she knew all of them before the incident. SO I reckon she is unable to identify them anyway.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Canadian Government is freezing any funds for Hockey Canada until Hockey Canada agrees to sign up with an independent agency that can investigate reports of abuse of inappropriate behavior moving forward.

This stems from a woman who filed a 3.55 million dollar lawsuit against 8 players from the 2018 Team Canada World Junior Team. The woman alleges that she was sexually assaulted in London Ontario following a Team Gala in 2018. Hockey Canada eventually settled with the woman, and the charges were dropped.

Canadian government called Hockey Canada to testify a few days ago in regards to where the settlement money came from to ensure it wasnt from Government funding money aka public tax payer money. Canadian Government was evidently unhappy with the results of their investigation , thus freezing the funding to Hockey Canada. Last year alone, Hockey Canada received 18 million dollars of funding from the government.

Side note: The 2018 Team Canada team is filled with some prominent players. Im not surprised Team Canada settled the lawsuit within 2 weeks of the lawsuit being filed.

Pos.	No.	Player	Team	NHL Rights
GK	1	Colton Point	Colgate University	Dallas Stars
GK	31	Carter Hart	Everett Silvertips	Philadelphia Flyers
D	2	Jake Bean	Calgary Hitmen	Carolina Hurricanes
D	3	Conor Timmins	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	Colorado Avalanche
D	6	Callan Foote	Kelowna Rockets	Tampa Bay Lightning
D	7	Cale Makar	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Colorado Avalanche
D	8	Dante Fabbro – A	Boston University	Nashville Predators
D	10	Kale Clague – A	Brandon Wheat Kings	Los Angeles Kings
D	28	Victor Mete – A	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Canadiens
F	9	Dillon Dubé – C	Kelowna Rockets	Calgary Flames
F	11	Jonah Gadjovich	Owen Sound Attack	Vancouver Canucks
F	12	Boris Katchouk	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	Tampa Bay Lightning
F	14	Maxime Comtois	Victoriaville Tigres	Anaheim Ducks
F	16	Taylor Raddysh	Erie Otters	Tampa Bay Lightning
F	17	Tyler Steenbergen	Swift Current Broncos	Arizona Coyotes
F	19	Drake Batherson	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles	Ottawa Senators
F	20	Michael McLeod	Mississauga Steelheads	New Jersey Devils
F	21	Brett Howden	Moose Jaw Warriors	Tampa Bay Lightning
F	23	Sam Steel	Regina Pats	Anaheim Ducks
F	24	Alex Formenton	London Knights	Ottawa Senators
F	25	Jordan Kyrou	Sarnia Sting	St. Louis Blues
F	27	Robert Thomas	London Knights	St. Louis Blues

Federal government freezing Hockey Canada’s funding - TSN.ca

Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge tells TSN’s Rick Westhead the organization won’t receive funds until it signs up with a new federal agency that has the power to independently receive and investigate abuse complaints and issue sanctions for inappropriate behaviour.

www.tsn.ca

PLEASE correct the wording in your post.
As your misrepresenting the facts, it’s members of WJC and some CHL players. ( not the precise wording).
Written 8 CHL players from WJC but not limited to, with some CHL players.
You need to find the correct language used, as your wording is strictly WJC, when we know it wasn’t all WJC.

Edit: believe it was worded, by eight players “for, and members of the Canadian Hockey League and Hockey Canada, including but not limited to members of“ that year’s gold medal-winning U20 Men’s Junior Hockey Team. The incident followed a Hockey Canada Foundation golf outing and gala event, according to the claim.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Last thread on this topic got locked up so I'm guessing this one will go as well.

In the meantime, though, sure would be nice if Hockey Canada didn't use taxpayer funds as hush money for rape victims. Can't rock the boat, eh? Got these players' careers to think about!

 

[WarriorofTime]

Hockey Canada's quick decision to settle and bury the issue without investigation means it is unlikely the culpable will ever be revealed unless one of the innocent players essentially "rats" them out

PLEASE correct the wording in your post.
As your misrepresenting the facts, it’s members of WJC and some CHL players. ( not the precise wording).
Written 8 CHL players from WJC but not limited to, with some CHL players.
You need to find the correct language used, as your wording is strictly WJC, when we know it wasn’t all WJC.

The reports are a bit mixed, but I think based on the facts, it was a case where victim met up with a CHL player (no WJC) that she was familiar with at bar, that CHL player introduced her to members from the WJC team in town for the gala, they went back to the hotel and then there was a sexual assault, it is likely that most of the assaulters were members of the WJC team (if not all entirely) because they were the ones that would be staying at the hotel after the gala.

 

[dalewood12]

Could the IIHF or the IOC also punish Hockey Canada?

 

[Mr Kot]

WTF I LIKE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT NOW?!

 

[UrbanImpact]

Could the IIHF or the IOC also punish Hockey Canada?

Based on what though. Its been covered up.

I'm sure part of the settlement is the woman is not allowed to speak about it anymore.

 

[surixon]

Last thread on this topic got locked up so I'm guessing this one will go as well.

In the meantime, though, sure would be nice if Hockey Canada didn't use taxpayer funds as hush money for rape victims. Can't rock the boat, eh? Got these players' careers to think about!

I mean what were they supposed to do vis a vis the lawsuit? Generally when your sued you either fight it tooth and nail or you settle. I mean most people were happy for Beach when his lawsuit was settled by the Hawks. Why now in a different case is settling the lawsuit with the victim seen as a bad thing?

 

[Alicat]

I mean what were they supposed to do vis a vis the lawsuit? Generally when your sued you either fight it tooth and nail or you settle. I mean most people were happy for Beach when his lawsuit was settled by the Hawks. Why now in a different case is settling the lawsuit with the victim seen as a bad thing?

Because it was brought by a young woman who wishes to remain anonymous and who did not name the players. It is common in society for women who bring these kinds of allegations against athletes to not be believed and only in it to "ruin" the player(s) and "get rich".

Look up Deshaun Watson and just how vile people have been to the 24 women who accused him of a variety of things and who were found credible.

It is so gross

 

[Transplanted Caper]

Obviously, the incident itself is appalling, but I'd imagine the funding got cutoff after Hockey Canada's pathetic performance on Monday at Committee. While they tried to talk a good game about how quickly they acted, it became pretty clear getting to the bottom of things clearly wasn't a priority. They couldn't confirm the number of players who agreed to participate in the third party investigation, essentially admitted said investigation was only half-finished and didn't reach even the most basic of conclusions, offered no real defense of not using their leverage to get players to participate, and had little in the way to say about general policy changes they've implemented since the incident. Their "this is a journey we're on" was incredibly tone-deaf and made it sound like they only discovered the dark side of hockey culture in 2022. They're rightfully up the creek. The government isn't messing around, and have the support of all the other parties to push hard on this. Expect HC to be brought back to Committee in the fall, if not in an emergency hearing in the summer.

 

[Alicat]

Question for a legal expert in Canada:

Does the NDA signed also cover the players and thus prevent the police from investigating and the courts from prosecuting them?

 

[Matty Sundin]

An actual decent decision by the government I’m shocked.
Also with this forums rules of no political talk, I don’t see this thread surviving.

 

[PromisedLand]

any news on who those 8 players were? and also what was the accusation? was it verbal/physical?

 

[Golden_Jet]

any news on who those 8 players were? and also what was the accusation? was it verbal/physical?

There won’t be any news, that’s why they are called John Doe 1-8. Names were never disclosed to Hockey Canada or anyone else.

 

[Transplanted Caper]

any news on who those 8 players were? and also what was the accusation? was it verbal/physical?

The accusation is that it was a gang sexual assault. There is not, and won't be, any news on the identities of the players. The woman has not provided that information and even Hockey Canada says they have no knowledge who the 8 are.

 

[Mickey Marner]

any news on who those 8 players were? and also what was the accusation? was it verbal/physical?

CHL settle lawsuit over alleged sexual assault involving World Junior players

 

[UrbanImpact]

any news on who those 8 players were? and also what was the accusation? was it verbal/physical?

bro cmon, you think she filed a 3mil lawsuit cuz she was verbally assaulted by 8 hockey players in a hotel room?

 

[Golden_Jet]

bro cmon, you think she filed a 3mil lawsuit cuz she was verbally assaulted by 8 hockey players in a hotel room?

When are you correcting wording for OP, for accuracy?
Any interest at getting the story correct @UrbanImpact .?

 

[ORRFForever]

bro cmon, you think she filed a 3mil lawsuit cuz she was verbally assaulted by 8 hockey players in a hotel room?

PL asked a simple question. No need to be aggressive.

 

[ORRFForever]

From what I heard, there is no criminal case. Hockey Canada wanted to make this go away so they reached into their pockets. If anyone was going to pay, it should have been the players, NOT Hockey Canada.

Might be best to leave well enough alone.