Global News published this video item, entitled “Ottawa’s plan to battle abuse in Canadian sports faces skepticism” – below is their description.
Some of Canada’s most prominent sports figures gathered in Montreal on Sunday to address a crisis threatening the country’s athletic excellence.
In the past six months, athletes from at least five different sports have come forward with allegations of abuse within their own teams. The athletes come from sports including gymnastics, boxing and bobsleigh and have brought forward claims of mistreatment against coaches and other officials.
Now, Ottawa is stepping in with a plan to battle mistreatment. But as Dan Spector reports, it’s being met with some skepticism.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Montréal is the largest city in Canada’s Québec province. It’s set on an island in the Saint Lawrence River and named after Mt. Royal, the triple-peaked hill at its heart.