Hockey culture is Canadian culture, for better or for worse

To be a white, male hockey player is to embody an idealized version of Canadian identity. The cracks are starting to show.
Canada's Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge, centre, appears at the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on July 26, 2022, with Michel Ruest, Senior Director, Programs, Sport Canada Branch, left, and Deputy Minister of Heritage Isabelle Mondou to answer questions about the investigation of sexual misconduct scandal plaguing Hockey Canada.
To be a hockey player in Canada is to be, in some ways, infallible. As football is to the U.S.A., hockey is our ‘all-Canadian’ sport. According to the dictionary, “All-American” means “possessing qualities characteristic...

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