1. Introduction
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In the fall of 2002, the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages followed up on a June 2000 study pertaining to the use of French and English in the Canadian sport system, entitled Official Languages in the Canadian Sports System. In this study, the Office of the Commissioner weighed the validity of allegations that French-speaking athletes were unable to develop fully their skills within the framework of existing programs.
The study was designed to determine the extent to which fifteen recommendations that we had made to Sport Canada during the course of this study had been implemented. We also assessed progress in implementing a recommendation that had been addressed to the Treasury Board Secretariat. In the final this follow-up report, we took the comments provided by Sport Canada and Treasury Board Secretariat on the preliminary report into consideration.
