3. Methodology
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During our follow-up, we conducted more than fifty interviews with high performance athletes and other stakeholders in the Canadian sport system. During the initial phase of this process, we asked Sport Canada to advise us in writing of the implementation status of each of our fifteen recommendations. At the same time, we met with managers and officers in charge of various Sport Canada programs and we collected relevant documents from the department. We then met with representatives of sports associations and visited two national sport centres, one of which is located in Calgary and the other in Winnipeg, and we also conducted telephone interviews with employees at the National Multi-Sport Centre - Montreal. We had previously examined these centres during our 2000 study. We then spoke with high performance athletes to find out how well the existing sport system meets their language needs.
Our follow-up enabled us to produce a linguistic profile of the Canadian sport system, three years after publication of our study. However, the written response document submitted by Sport Canada lacked detail as to the actions that had been taken to implement our recommendations. Sport Canada experienced problems maintaining continuity of action due to staff turnover over the past two years and this factor has had an impact on the implementation of recommendations.
