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LONDON, ONT.– Tyler Steenbergen, a former member of Canada’s 2018 world junior team, testified on Friday that a lawyer hired by Hockey Canada in 2022 to investigate an alleged sexual assault in a London hotel room in June 2018 may have mischaracterized what Steenbergen said he saw at the time.

Steenbergen, who is not accused of wrongdoing, previously testified that while he was in Michael McLeod’s hotel room in the early morning hours of June 19, 2018, he saw Dillon Dube slap E.M., the complainant in the sexual assault trial of Dube, Callan Foote and three of their Team Canada teammates.

Steenbergen also testified that he saw Foote do the splits over top of E.M., although his view was obscured.

Testifying remotely, Steenbergen said that on Oct. 2, 2022, he was interviewed by lawyers from Henein Hutchison LLP, a Toronto law firm hired by Hockey Canada to investigate the alleged incident four years earlier. Both the London police and Henein Hutchison closed their respective investigations in 2019 and then re-opened them in 2022 after news of the alleged sexual assault was made public.

Assistant Crown attorney Heather Donkers asked Steenbergen to review the handwritten notes made in 2022 by a Henein Hutchison lawyer who interviewed him.

While the notes........

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