When did you realize it's time to do more to protect referees?
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Sports referees are often on the receiving end of verbal abuse from coaches, players, and parents. Now there are more efforts to stop this behaviour -- so that referees don't quit. Ontario Today invites Harry Smith, a hockey referee in Etobicoke, as well as Scott Oakman, the executive director and chief Operating Officer of the Greater Toronto Hockey League.
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