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APPENDIX II
List of Witnesses


Organizations and Individuals

Meeting

Date

Department of Canadian Heritage

3

December 1, 1997

Norman Moyer, Assistant Deputy Minister, Citizenship and Canadian Culture

Dan Smith, Director General, Sports Canada

Canadian Olympic Association (COA)

4

December 8, 1997

Carol Anne Letheren, Chief Executive Officer

University of Ottawa

5

February 5, 1998

Jean Harvey, Professor, School of Physical Activity Sciences and Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of

Health Sciences

Marc Lavoie, Professor, Department of Economics

Athletes CAN

6

February 11, 1998

Lori Johnstone, Chair

Non-Federally Funded Olympic Sports (NFFOS)

James Bandola, Executive Director, Ski Jumping Canada

Kathy Millar, Federation of Canadian Archers Inc.

Jocelyn Langlois, Shooting Federation of Canada

Norman O'Reilly, National Team Manager

Neil Wilson, Canadian Snowboard Federation

Triathlon Canada (Triathlon)

Patrice Brunet, Director

William J. Hallett, President

Canada Games Council (CGC)

7

February 25, 1998

Lane MacAdam, President & CEO

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

8

March 25, 1998

Daniel Asselin, Director of Sports Programs, Radio- Canada

Alan Clark, Head of Television Network Sports, English Service

NetStar Sports (NetStar)

8

March 25, 1998

Jacques Boucher, Vice-President Programming,
Le Réseau des sports (RDS)

Jim Thompson, President

Metro Toronto Hockey League (MTHL)

9

April 21, 1998

John Gardner, President

As Individual

Lois Kalchman

Canadian Football League (CFL)

10

April 21, 1998

John Tory, Commissioner

National Basketball Association (NBA)

11

April 23, 1998

Jeffrey A. Mishkin, Executive Vice-President &
Chief Legal Officer

NBA Canada, Inc.

Ken Derrett, Managing Director

Toronto Raptors (Raptors)

Richard Peddie, President & CEO

Vancouver Grizzlies (Grizzlies)

Stephen Bellringer, President & CEO, Orca Bay

National Hockey League (NHL)

12

April 28, 1998

Stephen Bellringer, President & CEO, Orca Bay Sports & Entertainment, Vancouver Canucks

Gary Bettman, Commissioner, National Hockey League

Rod Bryden, Chairman and Governor, Ottawa Senators

Ronald Corey, President and Governor, Montreal
Canadiens

Ken Dryden, President and General Manager, Toronto Maple Leafs

Harley Hotchkiss, President and Governor, Calgary Flames, Chairman, NHL Board of Governors

Glen Sather, President and General Manager, Edmonton Oilers

Canadian Olympic Association (COA)

13

April 29, 1998

Michael Chambers, Vice-President

Carol Anne Letheren, Chief Executive Officer

Montreal Expos (Expos)

14

May 5, 1998

Claude R. Brochu, President

Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU)

15

May 7, 1998

Jennifer Brenning, Director of Operations

Kerry Moynihan, Chief Executive Officer

Appleton and Associates International Lawyers (Appleton)

16 May 12, 1998

Barry Appleton, Counsel

Marjan Neceski, Counsel

Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade (DFAIT)

John Gero, Director General, Trade Policy Bureau II (EBD)

John Klassen, Director General, General Trade Policy Bureau

Canadian Lacrosse Association (CLA)

17

May 13, 1998

William Hutton, Chairman of the Board

Michael Lachapelle, General Manager

Canadian Soccer Association (CSA)

Nick Filippone, Vice-President

Kevan Pipe, Chief Operating Officer

Eastern Ontario District Soccer Association

Joyce Stewart, President

Ontario Soccer Association

Brian Avey, Executive Director

Ed Grenda, President

Toronto Blue Jays Club (Blue Jays)

18

May 25, 1998

Bob Nicholson, Executive Vice-President, Business

Sam Pollock, Chairman & CEO

Association for the Advancement of Women & Sport & Physical Activity

19

October 7, 1998

Karin Lofstrom

Marg McGregor

Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport Canadian

Victor Lachance, Director General

Canadian Special Olympics Inc.

Deborah Bright

Jim Jordan, Chairman

Coaching Association of Canada

20

October 21, 1998

John Bales, President

Carolyne Hudson, Promotions & Communications
Co-ordinator

Eric King, Vice-President

Tom Kinsman, Coaching Consultant & Executive
Director

Lang and Associates

Chris Lang, Chairman

Dan Thompson, Principal "Architectus"

Molson Breweries

Jeff Carefoote, Senior Vice-President

Canadian Association for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance

21

October 22, 1998

Sue Cousineau, Executive Director

Daniel Parthenais, Special Programs Director

Health Canada

Janet Davies, Acting Director General, Strategies and Systems for Health Directorate

Tim Weir, Acting Manager, Fitness, Active Living Unit

Assembly of First Nations

22

October 28, 1998

Ted Nolan, Representative

Paulette Tremblay, Education Director

"Sports-Québec"

23

October 29, 1998

Jean-Guy Ouellet, Chairman

Claude Pelletier, Director General

Canadian Sporting Goods Association

24

November 4, 1998

Yves Paquette, President

Canadian Hockey League

25

November 5, 1998

David Branch, President

Gilles Courteau, Vice-President

Dev Dley, Vice-President

Racetracks of Canada Inc.

Stephen Edwards, Executive Vice-President

Yvon Guiguère, Simulcast Director, Hippodrome de Montréal

International Olympic Committee

26

November 16, 1998

Richard Pound, Vice-President

Informal Meetings

November 4, 1998

Dennis Mills, M.P., Chairman of the Sub-Committee on the Study of Sport in Canada of the Standing

Committee on Canadian Heritage

François Trudeau, Professor of Sport, Laval University

Athletics Canada

John Thresher, President and CEO

Hugh Wilson, Director of Athletics and Coach
Development

SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE ALSO CONSULTED WITH:

National Hockey League Players Association

November 10, 1998

Bob Goodenow, Executive Director

(Toronto)

As Individual

Bob McCown, Sport Journalist