The new safe sports director of Canada expects the first report of the future of sport in Canada in the Canadian commission to give direction to patch cracks when it comes to abuse and abuse.
The Canadian Ethics Center in Sports took over the reception and investigation of complaints and reports of abuse and abuse of the Office of the Commissioner of Integrity of the Sports in April at the request of the former Federal Sports Minister, Carla Qualtroough.
The report of the first quarter of the CCE revealed the same jurisdictional problems that affected OSIC: the CCE mandate is limited to the national level financed by the federal government and not at the provincial, territorial and club level.
Of 111 reports that reached the CCE in the first quarter, only 11 were considered admissible by the CCE, and 82 were fired because they were not at the national level financed by the federal government.
The CCE makes an effort to find other authorities to handle cases not under its umbrella.
He issued provisional measures against two people not named in the report, but there are no sanctions, in the first quarter.
Below the national level, sports organizations remain to hire organizations or lawyers of independent third parties (ITP) to handle cases.
Report mechanisms and how complaints are managed.
“You have to do something about it,” said CCES Executive Director Safe Sport Signy Arnason.
September Summit in Ottawa
The Future of Sport In Canada Commission has said that it will publish its preliminary report on Thursday before a September summit in Ottawa.
The Commission made consultations through the country in a dozen cities from October to January, when athletes, coaches, officials and sports organizations were invited to participate in writing, or through presentations and online surveys.
An online public survey published on June 16 closes on Wednesday.
The Commission was among several federal government remedies for a wave of abuse and abuse reports, both current and historical, which emerged after the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The crying athletes spoke with the parliamentary committees about mental, verbal, physical and sexual abuse, and of compensation for informing it.
“What the Future of Sport In Canada Commission should say will be really critical to advance safe sport in this country,” said Arnason.
Bringing Provincial/Territorial Sports and Club under the CCE umbrella is an option, he said.
“Where does money come from to support that model?” She asked.
“The NSO will already tell you that they are not obtaining enough funds nationwide, much less assuming the other levels of sport.
“If we take the address of abuse in this country seriously, and I don’t think that should be exclusive to those nationwide, then we have to find a way to finance this correctly.”
National level cases
Volleyball Canada was the only national sports organization that brought its provincial/territorial systems and clubs when it became a signatory to the Code of Behavior of the Universal Code to prevent and address the abuse in sport (UCCMS) under OSIC.
But the CCE, which uses 15 people in its Canadian safe sports program, is currently handling only cases nationwide.
“We have a closer jurisdiction even than Osic had in place,” said Arnason. “We did it on purpose with the idea in mind that we wanted to be able to start what is really essentially a new program because we did not transfer what Osic was doing.
“We needed to guide and understand what was in the system better and make sure we could comply with the deadlines that are prescribed within the CSSP rules.
“That was imperative because if you cannot comply with the deadlines and people have no predictability within the system and know where they are, then we are not doing any favor for anyone.”
Of the 111 reports to the CCE in the first quarter, 33 percent were carried out anonymously.
And 48 percent of the reports made by an impacted person were people under 18, while 69 percent of the informed people were adults.
The types of prohibited behavior informed included psychological, physical and sexual abuse, limit transgressions, preparation, interference or manipulation of the process and discrimination.
“We are starting to see that there are more reports in our system that are within the jurisdiction,” Arnason said.
“That does not reach its problem around the jurisdiction for these other pockets within Canada. And that discussion is desperately necessary and we have to find a safe plan … to ensure that everyone is subject to the same rules of the game and understand how the abuse will be addressed regardless of the level of sport in which it is.”
