Quebec Legislature Holds Hearings Today on Violent, Sexual Hazing in Hockey

Quebec Legislature Holds Hearings Today on Violent, Sexual Hazing in Hockey
Commissioner of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Gilles Courteau, in Ottawa on July 27, 2022. A Quebec legislative committee is beginning a one-day hearing to investigate violence during hockey hazing rituals. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Quebec’s legislature is holding hearings today on violence in hockey hazing rituals and the possibility that similar practices exist in other sports.

The legislature is studying the issue after a recent Ontario court decision revealed disturbing details of sexual assault and torture suffered by teenage hockey players in Canada’s three major junior hockey leagues.