Delta MP Carla Qualtrough inherits safe sport crisis upon return as sports minister

Federal sports minister Carla Qualtrough says she knows what’s required to solve Canada’s safe sport crisis. The how is still a work in progress.

The Delta-MP was re-appointed sports minister this summer eight years after she was first assigned the portfolio in 2015.

The lawyer and visually-impaired former Paralympic swimmer moved onto other cabinet positions after two years in sports.

Qualtrough returns to the file a more seasoned cabinet minister, and amid what her predecessor Pascale St-Onge has called a safe sport crisis.

“I’ve come back to this position at a time of significant turmoil within the sport system,” Qualtrough told The Canadian Press on Thursday. “Trust in sport leaders, trust in sport

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