BLOG: Day 1 at Hockey Canada hearings from Parliament Hill

Hockey Canada officials will appear before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in Ottawa over the next two days, facing questioning over their handling of the sexual assault allegations involving members of the 2018 World Junior team.

Danielle Robitaille of Henein Hutchison LLP, the independent law firm hired by Hockey Canada to be the third-party investigator of the alleged incident, took questions on Tuesday. Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge and officials from Sports Canada also appeared.

Scott Smith, Hockey Canada's president and COO, and recently retired CEO Tom Renney are among those expected to speak Wednesday.

TSN’s Rick Westhead is in Ottawa and will provide updates from the hearings throughout both days. For more on the hearings, click HERE. 

2:04pm ET

Hearing over. Will join @SportsCentre and @CTVNationalNews tonight to debrief and set the stage for Hockey Canada officials' testimony tomorrow.

2:03pm ET

MP John Nater asks Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge if she agrees that Sport Canada staff mishandled Hockey Canada's 2018 sexual abuse allegations. St-Onge says while "there is room for improvement," SC "did what it was supposed to do, which is take note of the [abuse] cases."

1:41pm ET

Conservative MP Kevin Waugh to Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge: "You can point fingers at Hockey Canada all you wish. I’m pointing a finger at Sport Canada." Waugh says SC staff should have "directed the minister in 2018 to do something" and says SC "needs to own this..."

1:26pm ET

MP Lisa Hepfner asked an interesting question, about whether e St-Onge believes more funding could have been distributed to Canadian women's national teams had the $ for National Equity Fund been distributed differently. St-Onge encouraged her