Inside Canadas safe sport crisis
This week, a parliamentary committee questioned Gymnastics Canada CEO, Ian Moss, about his organization\u2019s response to allegations of misconduct against a national team coach.\n\nThe national gymnastics federation is just the latest in a growing list of sports organizations that have faced scrutiny for their handling of allegations of abuse and misconduct.\n\nMany have called it a safe sport crisis. While Ottawa says it\u2019s taking the issue very seriously, critics \u2013 including Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan \u2013 say the government hasn\u2019t done enough.\n\nMacintosh Ross is an assistant professor of kinesiology at Western University, where he studies human rights abuses and the Olympics, and a member of Scholars Against Abuse. Today he shares his thoughts on why an independent inquiry is necessary to shift the culture in Canadian sport.