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Sport minister calls for 'change' at Hockey Canada as calls for resignations mount

Warning: This story contains sexually graphic details that may be disturbing to readers

As calls mount for the leaders of Canada's national hockey organization to resign over sexual misconduct scandals, federal Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge is calling for "change" within the organization.

St-Onge told told CBC News' The House that she was horrified by details of a video a source said they viewed of an alleged 2003 group sexual assault involving that year's World Junior hockey players.

Asked whether news of the video and of other misconduct scandals that have come to light recently should lead to resignations among Hockey Canada's leaders, St-Onge said the organization has lost "the trust of Canadians."

"I'm as concerned as all Canadians," she said. "Also my parliamentary colleagues that have asked for the board to resign and the directors to resign.

"I feel the same, that there needs to be change within the organization.

"I'm using all the tools that I have ... to create and impose that change at Hockey Canada. But at some point they need to also look at themselves ... Are they the right people to to implement the change that Canadians are requesting? They need to take responsibility for what's happening within their own organization and so far it hasn't been enough."

The comment is one of the strongest St-Onge has made about Hockey Canada's leadership. She previously said more diversity was needed in top jobs at the hockey organization and on its board of directors. 

A man who said he viewed the video told CBC News he recently shared with police the names of two players he recognized from the footage who went on to careers in the NHL.

The man said the video showed the two players walking into a hotel room where about

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