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1. Statistics Canada, Sport Participation in Canada, 1994, p. 5. [back]
2. Canada, House of Commons, Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, Sub-Committee on the Study of Sport in Canada, Sport in Canada: Everybody’s Business (The Mills Report), December 1998, p. 4. [back]
3. Public Accounts of Canada 1997, Volume II, Part I, Details of Expenditures and Revenues, p. 3.20 and 3.21. [back]
4. Mills Report, op.cit., p. 4. [back]
5. Federal-Provincial Advisory Committee on Equal Linguistic Access to Services in Sport, June 1990, p. 2. [back]
6. Sport: The Way Ahead, The Report of the Minister’s Task Force on Federal Sport Policy, May 1992, pp. 145-146. [back]
7. Sport: The Way Ahead, op.cit., p. 146. [back]
8. Government Transformations: The Impact on Canada’s Official Languages Program, Commissioner of Official Languages, 1998. [back]
9. Ekos Research Associates Inc., The Status of the HighPerformance Athlete in Canada, Final Report, September 1992, p. 49. [back]
10. Sport: The Way Ahead, op.cit., p. 145. [back]
11. Statistics Canada, Portrait of Official Languages in Canada [CD-ROM], Census 1996, Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1998 (Dimensions Series) 94F0010XCB. [back]
12. According to the 1996 census, 41% of Francophones in Canada are bilingual, compared with 9% of Anglophones. In Quebec, 34% of Francophones and 63% of Anglophones are bilingual. See Louise Marmen and Jean-Pierre Corbeil, Languages in Canada: 1996 Census, New Canadian Perspectives Series, Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1999, p. 44. [back]
13. Sport Canada, Contribution Guidelines, 1999-2000, p. 1. [back]
1 4. Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Number 27 – Audit on Official Languages – Grants and Contributions, 1999, p. 5. [back]
15. Ibid., p. 45 [back]
16. Sport Canada, Sport Funding and Accountability Framework, Minimum Expectations, Athlete Centredness. [back]
17. Ibid., Minimum Expectations, Athletes with a Disability. [back]
