This summer camp kept an instructor who pleaded guilty to assaulting kids. Ontario law allowed it @CBCToronto

Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

For weeks this summer, a lead instructor at a Kawartha Lakes hockey camp was a man who recently pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting children. As CBC's Christian D'Avino explains, there is no Ontario legislation that requires summer camps to screen staff that work with children.

After CBC’s reporting on Tuesday morning, the provincial government announced it is working to change the law.

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