Wednesday, at the University of Toronto, Duncan announced two things: the creation of an anonymous national sport helpline, and a national, independent third-party investigative pool for federally funded sports federations. The helpline is a listening and referral service.” Essentially, the line is staffed by trained professionals who can help people who need help by directing them to the right place. Because I think at the end of the day a lot of these cases involve betrayal of trust, right? “We think this is an incredibly important step in a long line of measures over the last year to make sport safer. I think personally for myself, I would say that I probably would’ve called the helpline even before he started to groom me, so to speak.

Source: thestar March 14, 2019 01:18 UTC