Hockey Canada’s Board of Directors interim Chair Andrea Skinner said her organization has an “excellent reputation” and is a victim of “substantial misinformation and unduly cynical attacks.”.Skinner said it is unfair to make Hockey Canada the “centrepiece for toxic culture” as it is not just a Hockey Canada problem..READ MORE POLL: Most Canadians angered at Hockey Canada using registration fees for sexual assault claims.On Tuesday, Skinner and former chair Michael Brind’Amour answered MP's questions during a two-hour Heritage committee meeting about how Hockey Canada dealt with multiple sexual assault allegations over the past few decades.. Andrea Skinner .Skinner acknowledged a “toxic culture” and a “culture of silence” exists in Hockey Canada..Skinner argued it's not a “specific hockey problem” and exists everywhere in society, including in education, business, politics, and religious institutions..Multiple MPs, including Sports Minister Pascale Ste-Onge, called on senior Hockey Canada executives to resign, but Skinner said it's important for the leadership to “remain stable.”.“What it shows is sexual violence has been treated as an insurance problem at Hockey Canada instead of a systemic problem that needs to be addressed at the root of the problem,” Ste-Onge told reporters on Monday.. Hockey Canada Black Jersey .MPs accused Hockey Canada of acting “Trump-like” with Skinner’s attack on the media and “encouraging” a culture of silence for sexual assault victims..TSN first reported a woman was allegedly gang-raped by some of the 2018 Canadian World Junior team players..She received a $3.55 million payout from the National Equity Fund, which was funded by player registration fees, and ended the investigation. .READ MORE Hockey Canada didn’t require players to take part in 2018 sexual assault investigation.Over the last 33 years, Hockey Canada’s Chief Financial Officer Brian Cairo told the committee in previous testimony that about $9 million had been paid to 21 complainants, with most of the money connected to settlements related to former junior hockey coach Graham James..READ MORE Hockey Canada CFO said it paid nine sex settlements totalling $7.6 million.Hockey Canada has a second multi million-dollar fund, the Participants Legacy Trust Fund, used to pay “for matters including, but not limited to, sexual abuse.”
