Pelletier said she is encouraged by the efforts she is seeing from sporting organizations to join the new process and said some may be hampered by the need to change internal policies or gather appropriate consent from all involved. St-Onge has given all sports until April to sign on to the integrity commissioner’s system or risk losing their federal funding. Pelletier was appointed the country’s first sport integrity commissioner in April as the federal government moved to address what Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge has called a “crisis.”Īthletes have filed 24 complaints between June 20, when the office first began accepting them, and September.īut 16 of those are in limbo because only two national sporting bodies - weightlifting and volleyball - and three other organizations have signed up to use the service. Sarah-Ève Pelletier is hoping that will soon start to change. OTTAWA - Two dozen complaints about abuse and mistreatment have been filed with Canada’s new sport integrity commissioner, but she cannot investigate most of them because so few national sporting bodies have agreed to work with her office.

Integrity commissioner needs sporting body buy-in to investigate abuse complaints

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