Safer sports the goal of Future of Sport meetings [Video]

The woman at the helm of the Future of Sport in Canada Commission says many Canadians have participated so far and she urges more to speak up.

Lise Maisonneuve, a former chief justice of the Ontario court of justice, is leading consultations across the country in an effort to make sport safer and improve the overall sport system.

The commission reached the halfway mark of its consultations this week in Calgary, with more to come in Halifax, Gatineau, Que., Vancouver and Victoria.

Toronto, Regina, Quebec City, Montreal and Winnipeg were the commission’s first five stops.

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Maisonneuve declined to provide the number of people who have participated so far.

“I can tell you many, many have,” she said Thursday in Calgary. “We still have many to meet. The demands are increasing.”

Federal sports minister Carla Qualtrough …