Revealing investigation would pose “serious risks” for Hockey Canada

It's been nearly a calendar year since Hockey Canada was absolutely rocked with multiple scandals and nearly nine months since the government of Canada froze its $98 million account.

Yesterday, the CBC reported that Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge is considering restoring Hockey Canada's federal funding after admitting that the group had satisfied her requirements for funding restoration.

"We want to make sure that the new board of directors remains committed to [bringing] the expected profound cultural change within the organization," said Ariane Joazard-Belizaire, a spokesperson for the minister's office. 

The organization is still under third party investigations after allegations made against members of Hockey Canada's 2003 U20 World Junior team and the 2018 U20 World Junior team. Members of Parliament are pushing for the findings of the investigations to be made public, but Hockey Canada says that doing so would pose "serious risks" to its operation moving forward.

In a statement sent to CBC, Hockey Canada said it told the committee it "will deliver the report" but asked the committee "to consider the serious risks that producing the report to the committee could have on the ongoing police investigation and Hockey Canada's independent adjudicative process."

"If, despite those risks, the committee confirms its order, Hockey Canada will deliver the report to the committee," the statement says. 

Hockey Canada said its own panel of two retired judges and a senior lawyer is reviewing the investigation report behind closed doors to decide if there should be any sanctions.

"As that process continues, all information concerning the contents of the investigator's report are held in the strictest confidence so as not to risk compromising the integrity of the panel's work," said Hockey Canada. 

In other words: We'd like to keep doing what we want, when we want and with no oversight. Oh... and please give us our free money because we've been waiting 9 months.

I have no doubt that if the findings of these investigations were to be made public then there'd be Hell to pay for Hockey Canada. I've thought at several points in this scandal that things couldn't get any worse for the once proud organization, but now that I think about it if the investigation findings were to be made public, we could receive some information that literally destroys Hockey Canada permanently. If that's the case... I'm not sure I wanna know...