Consultant Code of Conduct

  • Consultants must treat all clients equitably and cannot discriminate in providing service.
  • Consultants are expected to conduct themselves in a professional, courteous and appropriate manner.
  • Consultants are not permitted to borrow or to make use of company funds or other assets (property) for their own personal gain or benefit.
  • Consultants are expected to comply with all laws applicable to the business of the SMSCS.  If a consultant is in doubt as to whether or not a particular course of action would infringe applicable law, he or she should discuss the proposed activity with the Executive Director who in turn should seek the guidance of appropriate company legal counsel if necessary.
  • The SMSCS name, property and goodwill must not be used by consultants for their personal advantage.
  • Consultants shall not use confidential information gained by virtue of their association with the SMSCS for their own personal gain, nor shall they disclose such information for the use of others.
  • No information may be released without the expressed advance permission of the Executive Director of the SMSCS. 
  • Consultants have a responsibility to maintain and enhance the dignity and reputation of the SMSCS by:
    • Demonstrating respect to individuals regardless of body type, physical characteristics, athletic ability, age, ancestry, color, race, citizenship, ethnic origin, place of origin, creed, disability, family status, marital status, gender identity, gender expression, sex, and sexual orientation.
    • Focusing comments or criticism appropriately and avoiding public criticism of individuals or the SMSCS.
    • Consistently demonstrating the spirit of sportsmanship, sport leadership, and ethical conduct.
    • Acting, when appropriate, to correct or prevent practices that are unjustly discriminatory.
    • Consistently treating individuals fairly and reasonably.
    • Ensuring adherence to the rules of the sport and the spirit of those rules.
  • Consultants have a responsibility to refrain from any behaviour that constitutes harassment. Types of behaviour that constitute harassment include, but are not limited to:
    • Written or verbal abuse, threats, or outbursts.
    • The display of visual material which is offensive or which one ought to know is offensive.
    • Unwelcome remarks, jokes, comments, innuendo, or taunts.
    • Leering or other suggestive or obscene gestures.
    • Condescending or patronizing behaviour which is intended to undermine self-esteem, diminish performance or adversely affect working conditions.
    • Practical jokes which cause awkwardness or embarrassment, endanger a person’s safety, or negatively affect performance.
    • Any form of hazing.
    • Unwanted physical contact including, but not limited to, touching, petting, pinching, or kissing.
    • Unwelcome sexual flirtations, advances, requests, or invitations.
    • Physical or sexual assault.
    • Behaviours such as those described above that are not directed towards a specific individual or group but have the same effect of creating a negative or hostile environment.
    • Retaliation or threats of retaliation against an individual who reports harassment.

Other Examples of Harassment

  • Bullying
    • Repeated offensive or intimidating phone calls or emails
    • Inappropriate touching, advances, suggestions or requests
    • Displaying or circulating offensive pictures, photographs or materials
    • Psychological abuse
    • Discrimination
    • Intimidating words or conduct (offensive jokes or innuendos)
    • Words or actions which are known or should reasonably be known to be offensive, embarrassing, humiliating, or demeaning
  • Consultants have a responsibility to refrain from any behaviour that constitutes violence. Types of behaviour that constitute violence include, but are not limited to:
    • Verbal threats to attack someone.
    • Sending to or leaving threatening notes or emails.
    • Making threatening physical gestures.
    • Wielding a weapon.
    • Hitting, pinching or unwanted touching which is not accidental.
    • Blocking normal movement or physical interference, with or without the use of equipment.
    • Sexual violence.
    • Any attempt to engage in the type of conduct outlined above.
  • Consultants have a responsibility to refrain from any behaviour that constitutes sexual harassment, where sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual comments and sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, or conduct of a sexual nature. Types of behaviour that constitute sexual harassment include, but are not limited to:
    • Sexist jokes.
    • Display of sexually offensive material.
    • Sexually degrading words used to describe a person.
    • Inquiries or comments about a person’s sex life.
    • Unwelcome sexual flirtations, advances, or propositions.
    • Persistent unwanted contact.
  • Consultants should abstain from the non-medical use of drugs or the use of performance-enhancing drugs or methods. More specifically, the SMSCS adopts and adheres to the Canadian Anti-Doping Program. The SMSCS will respect any penalty enacted pursuant to a breach of the Canadian Anti-Doping Program, whether imposed by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport or any other sport association.
  • Consultants must refrain from associating with any person for the purpose of coaching, training, competition, instruction, administration, management, athletic development, or supervision, who has incurred an anti-doping rule violation and is serving a sanction involving a period of ineligibility imposed pursuant to the Canadian Anti-Doping Program and/or the World Anti-Doping Code and recognized by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES).
  • Consultants must refrain from the use of power or authority in an attempt to coerce another person to engage in inappropriate activities.
  • Consultants must refrain from consuming alcohol, tobacco products, or recreational drugs while participating in SMSCS programs, activities, competitions, or events.  In the case of adults, avoid consuming alcohol in situations where minors are present and take reasonable steps to manage the responsible consumption of alcohol in adult-oriented social situations associated with the SMSCS’s events.
  • Consultants must respect the property of others and not willfully cause damage.
  • Consultants must adhere to all federal, provincial and municipal laws.
  • Consultants must comply, at all times, with the SMSCS’s bylaws, policies, procedures, and rules and regulations, as adopted and amended from time to time.