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To cap it all off, Hockey Québec said it will create a “risk management and monitoring” committee to watch over Hockey Outaouais. It also calls the measure “crisis management.”

All of this stems from a bus trip to Rivière-du-Loup in early October. Members of the midget AAA team from Gatineau — the top competitive level for boys up to age 17 — were headed to a tournament and along the way a coach was ordered to leave the bus, after a complaint of sexual contact with a player. He has not been publicly identified.

There have been complaints to Gatineau police, but no charges have been laid. Police won’t discuss details of the complaints or discuss whether an investigation is ongoing. In the meantime, the coach was allowed to continue clinics for a few weeks immediately after the allegations were made.

That caused trouble for Lemery, the president of Hockey Gatineau. Callers on radio shows, in particular, criticized him for allowing the coach to keep working.

By early November, the provincial body got into the act. On Nov. 7 it temporarily suspended Lemery for a possible breach of the code of ethics and summoned him to a meeting to explain the situation.

Ten days later Lemery and his lawyer went to be interviewed by Hockey Québec. The provincial body also spoke to two members of the Outaouais board of directors and one staff employee.

Some of the witnesses said they had not been told details about the allegations involving the coach until Nov. 3, nearly a month after the bus trip incident.