ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 ABOUT THE CCES TABLE OF CONTENTS MISSION CONTACT US Our Message to You .............................. 03 Making sport better. Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport Governance and Leadership ...................05 To do this we: 201-2723 Lancaster Road Ottawa, ON K1B 0B1 Activate .................................................. 06 Activate a values-based and principle-driven sport system; [email protected] Advocate ................................................. 13 Advocate for sport that is fair, safe www.cces.ca Protect ....................................................17 and open; and Protect the integrity of sport. Doping Control Statistics ....................... 23 The CCES would like to acknowledge the Financial Report ......................................25 VISION financial support of the Government of Sport in Canada that is fair, safe and open Canada through Sport Canada and the FOLLOW THE CCES AND to everyone. Department of Canadian Heritage. TRUE SPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport @EthicsInSPORT (CCES) is certified to the ISO 9001:2015 @TrueSportpur Quality Management Standard, which demonstrates the CCES’s commitment facebook.com/ CanadianCentreforEthicsinSport to continual improvement and meeting Cover photo credit: facebook.com/TrueSportpur stakeholder needs. Photographer - Wheelchair Basketball Canada @ethicsinsport Athlete - Blaise Mutware, Canada’s Senior @truesportpur Men’s National Wheelchair Basketball Team Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport 02 CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ETHICS IN SPORT ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 OUR MESSAGE TO YOU As our 2019-2020 fiscal year drew to a of values. These values must form the address this issue. This recommendation close, Canadian sport found itself in the unshakeable foundation from which sport by Dubin not only set in motion the events early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. organizations make their decisions on how that ultimately led to the creation of the What was clear even then, was that sport to move forward with their sports post Canadian Centre for Drug-free Sport (CCDS), in Canada would not just be paused pandemic. but it also helped lay the groundwork for by the pandemic, it would be changed. Today, the CCES independently administers what ultimately became the World Anti- Furthermore, it was clear that the values the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP), Doping Code. at the core of ethical sport - fairness, which is a requirement under the World The CCES’s independence is just as essential excellence, inclusion and fun - would guide Anti-Doping Code and is a condition in addressing other unethical threats to the way forward, despite being challenged that Canada must meet to participate in sport, including maltreatment, match along the way by competing interests. We international sporting competitions. It manipulation and corruption, as it is for will emerge from this public health crisis to is also a requirement under the United addressing doping in sport. Furthermore, a new normal for Canadian sport. Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural the consistent activation of values-based Reflecting on the past year, under the Organization (UNESCO) Convention against sport remains our best prevention strategy growing shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, Doping in Sport, to which the Canadian against all forms of unethical conduct. the CCES believes that now, more than ever, government is a signatory. We hope you will enjoy reading about the one of the greatest assets we can bring to It is worth noting though, that prior to the CCES’s important accomplishments of the Canadian sport is our independence; in CCES coming into existence, anti-doping was past year that we have achieved through both our governance and in our operations. self-regulated by sport organizations. It was collaboration with our partners in pursuit Our independence means we are free from only in the wake of Canada’s doping scandal of our vision of “sport that is fair, safe and representational self-interests and we are of 1988 that Justice Charles Dubin, in his open to everyone.” You will find our work able to focus our work on our mission of 1990 landmark document, “Inquiry into described under our three strategic forces making sport better. In short, we can bring Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Sport,” that work together and contribute to sport’s shared values into the process of concluded that sports in Canada were too making sport better in Canada: protecting policy and program development, and conflicted to self-regulate anti-doping. He the integrity of sport; activating values- depend on them during times of crisis. For argued that as a country, if we were serious based sport; and advocating for sport that is almost 30 years, the CCES has advanced about addressing doping in sport, then we fair, safe and open. the importance of managing and delivering needed an independent body, free from sport to Canadians from a shared platform sport and government interference, to 03 CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ETHICS IN SPORT ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 We would like to thank the staff of the We would like to express our sincere CCES for their commitment to ethical appreciation to the Canadian Government, sport in Canada. Whether working on the the Minister of Canadian Heritage and implementation of the CADP, providing Sport Canada for their essential financial doping control services for international support of our work and the important and domestic clients, advancing values- commitment to ethical sport that it reflects. based sport through the activation of True Sport, drawing the government and sport’s attention to the growing threat of match manipulation, collaborating with sport and government to develop the Dr. Don McKenzie Mr. Paul Melia Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport expanding the content and reach of our education programs for athletes and athlete support personnel, responding to ethical inquiries or Dr. Don McKenzie communicating important messages to our Chair stakeholders, our team at the CCES always brings a passion and conviction to their work that has become a hallmark of our organization. We would also like to acknowledge and thank our Board of Directors. These accomplished Canadians not only shared their time and talents generously over the past year to provide essential stewardship and guidance to the CCES, they did so in a way that reflects how deeply they care about our mission and the importance of protecting ethical sport for all Canadians. Mr. Paul Melia President & CEO 04 CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ETHICS IN SPORT ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP CCES BOARD OF DIRECTORS WORKING COMMITTEES AND GROUPS The CCES Board of Directors is comprised The CCES is grateful for the expertise and • The Anti-Doping Review Panel considers of accomplished Canadians with expertise experience of the individuals who volunteer issues with anti-doping and regulatory in various fields of knowledge required to their time for the following committees, requirements. ensure the careful stewardship of the CCES. working groups and advisory panels: • The Ethical Issues Review Panel provides • Dr. Don McKenzie, Chair • The Therapeutic Use Exemption analysis and advice on a variety of ethical Committee evaluates applications from • issues in sport. Ms. Jocelyn Downie, Vice Chair athletes seeking permission to use • Ms. Julie Bristow prescribed medications that are on the • The AthletesCAN Anti-Doping Advisory World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Committee provides feedback and advice • Ms. Mary Chaput Prohibited List. on the CADP from the perspective of Canadian athletes. • Ms. Anne-Marie Dupras • The Prohibited List Committee provides • Ms. Christine Girard input on the annual WADA draft NOMINATIONS Prohibited List submission. If you know of an individual you believe • Dr. Connie Lebrun • The Biological Passport Committee is capable of contributing to the CCES • Mr. Brian Lennox provides expertise in hematology, through the Board of Directors or a exercise science, medicine and sport working group or committee, please email • Mr. Akaash Maharaj physiology. [email protected]. • Mr. John Wilkinson • The Audit Committee, the Nominations Learn more about the CCES’s governance structure and board of directors. • Dr. Andrew Pipe, Chair Emeritus Committee and the Compensation Review Committee are committees of our We welcomed Ms. Christine Girard and Ms. Board of Directors who oversee certain Mary Chaput as new members of the Board financial and human resources processes of Directors and we recognized the valuable to ensure transparency and accuracy. contributions of outgoing board members Mr. Philip Murray and Mr. Ian Glen. 05 CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ETHICS IN SPORT ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 ACTIVATE Staff from Gymnastics Canada, CCES and facilitator, Dina Bell-Laroche participate in True Sport Activation Workshop Good sport can have a positive influence on a wide range of societal issues such as TRUE SPORT IN ACTION child and youth development, crime reduction, education, social inclusion and more. The True Sport team at CCES hosted one-day However, good sport does not happen by chance. For this reason, the CCES works to activation workshops for Ringette Canada, activate good sport, sport that is values-based and principle driven, in communities Gymnastics Canada, Wheelchair Basketball across Canada. We do this through True Sport. True Sport gives good sport a name, and Canada and Curling Canada to help them operates in accordance with the