ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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The Commissioner’s Office would like to thank the following people who contributed to this study:
- the athletes who participated in the survey;
- athletes and coaches who participated in focus groups and interviews with the research team;
- staff of the national sport centres in Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal, who organized meetings with athletes and coaches, and volunteered information on their own work;
- directors and staff of national sport organizations who met with us and discussed official languages in their sport;
- directors and staff of multi-sport organizations who met with us, in particular the Coaching Association of Canada, which provided the results of its own survey of official languages in coaching documents;
- academics and provincial government representatives who provided their perspective on our study; and
- the staff of Sport Canada, who provided valuable assistance in contacting organizations and conducting our survey, and information on their own programs.
