MPs ‘are listening to Kirsty right now,’ says Status of Women Committee chair, following ex-minister Duncan’s comments on abuse in sport

Conservative MP Karen Vecchio says the majority of athletes who testified before the Status of Women Committee expressed a desire to have a national inquiry.

On Jan. 27, Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan renewed her calls for a national inquiry into abuse in sport, and said she faced resistance from within government on this file during her time as sport minister.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

January 31, 2023

Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan’s public call on government to make sports safer has caught the attention of MPs across party lines and “amplified every other athlete’s voice,” says Conservative MP Karen Vecchio.

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