Canadian and worldwide students have written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling for an unbiased inquiry into sports activities in Canada.

“There needs to be something that digs deeper and looks more at the preventative side of things,” says Western University professor Mac Ross.

Ross spearheaded the Scholars Against Abuse in Canadian Sport letter, saying Canadian athletes deserve higher.

“We have human rights experts, law experts, board experts, sociologists, historians. People looking at this through different lenses than the government might be, and coming to very different conclusions obviously than the government has.”

He says it was vital to deliver all these voices collectively and put them shoulder to shoulder with the survivors.

“We’re not lacking reasons or examples as to why this is important right now,” says sports activities sociologist Cheryl MacDonald.

The letter was signed by 91 people from 47 establishments.

It outlines how the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC) is failing athletes who’re being mistreated.

“The government must appoint a third party to conduct a proper, thorough, trauma-sensitive investigation into the systemic failure of the nation’s sport system,” reads the letter.

Ross says it’s vital to have an unbiased judicial inquiry that may dig in and tease out a number of the extra difficult issues that he doesn’t assume OSIC would be capable to do.

“Perhaps they’re a little bit too close at the moment, and in this specific case, maybe it’s time to branch out a little more and get a different perspective,” MacDonald says.

Ross says the purpose of the investigation have to be to forestall, relatively than merely reply, to the abuse.

While there hasn’t been a direct response from Prime Minister Trudeau, different MPs have reached out to Ross to voice their help.

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