Sport ministers team up to tackle ‘huge gap’ in safe sport against tight timeline, ‘frustrations’ of federalism

Provincial ministers told The Hill Times they want federal cash to help offset costs of joining Sport Integrity Commissioner Office as deadline to sign up or create their own sport oversight bodies looms.
On Feb. 17 and 18, Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge met with provincial and territorial colleagues in Prince Edward Island to discuss a 'huge gap' in safe sport policy.

Federal and provincial sport ministers trying to address jurisdictional gaps in safe sport policies are navigating a “very segmented” system that creates “the same set of frustrations” as seen in other federalism issues, say experienced players in sport policy.

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