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Silent Auction Countdown/Bid Form ORIENTEERING CANADA Published by the Canadian Orienteering Federation #713-1600 James NaismiTh Dr. Gloucester, Ontario KlB 5N4 Tel; (613) 748-5649 FAX. 7485706 OFFICIAL NEWSLE I 11:11 OF THE CANADIAN ORIENTEERING FEDERATION Vol. 22 No. 2 SUMMER 1994 ISSN 0227-6658 CONTENTS 2. 1996 CONGRESS AWARDED TO ISRAEL News from 1994 W.f. Congress 1 Somewhat of a surprise in that the Orienteering Core Sport Futility Or . Fatality? 2-3 Etiquette, Rules, Respect For Others, Etc.. 4 Federation of Israel were approved to host the 1996 To Map Or Not To Map 5 Congress. The 0 Federation of Israel has made National Squad News .......... 6 application several times previously without success 1994 World Cup . 7 and little support. General opinion was that the C.O.F. Drops . ..... , . .... 7 federation was too small to undertake the organizat- OCAD 5 For Windows . • • . .. ..... 8 ions of a Congress. Silent Auction Countdown/Bid Form . 9 SALE ITEMS 10 3. BRITAIN TO ORGANIZE 1999 WOC Support The Canadian National Squad 10 Items Available From COF/Order Form 11 Being approved to host the 1999 WOC culminated a fantastic year for the British Orienteering Federation. Member Benefits From COF ... gr 12 C.O.F. Addresses 12 Yvette Hague won the first ever WOC medal for the UK with a 3rd place in the 1993 Classic Distance race. The UK Men's Relay team had an unbelievable second NEWS FROM 1994 I.O.F.CONGRESS place finish for the second ever British medal. The election of Sue Harvey as President of the IOF 1. NEW IOF PRESIDENT and the successful bid to organize the 1999 WOC top Sue Harvey (UK) was elected to succeed Heinz Tschu- off an incredible 12 months. din (Switz) who retired after serving six years. The new president, fifth in the history of the 10F and the This is the second occasion the BOF has been awarded first woman to hold the position is one of the most the WOC. They also organizated the 1976 WOC. knowledgeable and respected individuals in the sport. 4. BRUCE WOLFS ILLS.) NORTH AMERICAN IOF Prior to the 10F establishing a permanent office she COUNCIL MEMBER served as a volunteer General Secretary managing the IOF business operations from her home in Scotland. California orienteer, Bruce Wolfe, was elected to She was editor of the 10F magazine for six years and replace Per Stensby, who served 8 years as the North served on the Technical Council for several years. In American delegate on the 1OF Council. IOF bylaws 1986 Sue was elected to the IOF Council and in 1988 call for two Council members to be from "Outside of to the position of Vice-President and Executive Comm- Europe". USOF nominated Wolfe to replace Stensby. ittee Member. The new president is fluent in several languages and has acted as translator for delegates Congratulations to Bruce. from Eastern European and Soviet Bloc countries. We extend our Congratulations and best wishes. 1 CORE SPORT FUTILITY OR FATALITY? The Core Sport concept was not conceived by concern CORE SPORTS - ENTRY LEVEL - ROAD KILLS about sport but rather by money, or lack of it. On May 19, Mr. Best released the long awaited Report. Since the mid 1980's the level of financial support to Thirty one °Core Sports' were identified to receive funding sport has decreased 5 - 1O°/ annually. Reductions plus for Administration and approved Programs. Nine 'Entry high inflation during the same period created difficult Level' sports were designated and eligible to receive some financial times for all national sport organizations. financial support for Administration but little program support. Thirteen sports were excluded and ineligible to In 1992 Sport Canada were advised their budget would receive government funding. Orienteering was included be reduced by a further 25% over the period 1993-1996 in this list of thirteen, subsequently dubbed 'Road Kills'. (10% in 1993 and 5% in 1994, 1995, 1996). It was decided rather than spreading a dwindling amount of The thirteen are: Biathlon, Bobsled, Lacrosse, Luge, funds thinner over a large number of sports it would be Orienteering, Free-Style Skiing, Team Handball, Football, better to reduce the number of sports. This would Weightlifting, Ladies Golf, Nordic Combined, Water Polo, maintain the level of funds to a lesser number of sports. Ski Jumping. The problem was to develop criteria to evaluate the Biathlon and Free-Style had not been not favoured for diverse organizations to determine which should continue inclusion as Core Sports, mainly due to low numbers of to receive funding and which should not. participants. Both sports had high profile athletes and Olympic medal winners. Would the Commission be In Spring 1993, Minister of Sport, Pierre Cadieux, created influenced by a medal mentality or measure sports on an a Core Sport Commission with the mandate to develop equal footing regardless of medals? criteria to identify those sports most meaningful to or practised by a large number of Canadians. Mr. Cal Best The Commission bit the bullet and excluded Biathlon and was appointed to head the commission. Free Style from the list of Core and Entry Level Sports. CORE SPORT Media attention focused on the exclusion of these two sports. Two gold medals by Myriam Bedard in Biathlon The Commission, Cal Best and two assistants, spent nine and a number of medals, including a gold by Jean Luc months developing questionnaires, conducting interviews, Brassard in Free-Style in the 1994 Winter Olympics were reviewing financial reports, membership data, results seen worthy for the inclusion of the two sports over from olympic, world, national championships etc. in order others such as Lawn Bowls, Archery and Fencing. to establish criteria suitable to evaluate and compare national sport organizations. A week prior to the Core Sport Report release a bill was passed in Parliament naming Lacrosse one of two official The Core Sport concept was the brainchild of Sport Canadian sports. Now, only weeks later a government Minister, Cadieux, Assistant Deputy Minister, Lyle Makos- commissioned report excluded them from funding. ky and Sport Canada Director General, Abby Hoffman. Many articles were published in newspapers over the Before the Commission started Hoffman was transferred next few weeks on Bedard, Brassard, Biathlon, Free-Style. to another department. Government re-structure saw Sport Canada aligned under a new Heritage Department The government advised they would take thirty days to and Makosky transferred. Next, the biggest change of all study the recommendations before deciding how, when - A Federal Election with the Conservative government and if they would proceed. At this stage it is simply a defeated by the Liberals and a new Heritage Minister, Report commissioned by government. The Minister may Michel Dupuy, appointed. The three architects of Core accept and implement all the recommendations; some of Sport were now all gone. the recommendations; none of the recommendations. The original completion date for the Core Sport Report If the Conservative government was still in power it is was November, 1993, with an implementation plan of likely the majority of the recommendations would have April 1, 1994. The changes in government and Sport been accepted and implemented in April as planned. The Canada officials delayed the completion until May 1994. change in government caused a delay and uncertainty. 2 GOVERNMENT DSQ FOR MISHANDLING Many of these organizations reason for existence is to provide services to the National Sport Federations. It is The day after the report release Olympic gold medallists, inconceivable that not one of these organizations is ex- Bedard and Brassard criticized the report citing their vic- cluded. The Commission said it was too difficult to tories to support retention of their sport over others. evaluate this group and that other criteria needed to be developed. This being the case they did not make any Minister, Dupuy, responded to their protests by sending recommendations on these groups. personal letters assuring them their funding would not be cut. The two federations were not advised, only the In addition the government have many projects of their athletes. This raised questions. 1. Will Bedard and Bras- own that escaped scrutiny. A large portion of Sport sard receive funding but not the federations? 2. What Canada funds are allocated to subsidize major games: about the 30 day study period before a decision made? Commonwealth Games in Victoria this year; support of Quebec City's bit to host the 2002 Winter Olympic The Lacrosse Association received a letter from the Games; construction of facilities for Montreal and Calgary Minister congratulating them on being named an official Olympics, World Nordic Championships in Thunder Bay Canadian Sport. The letter was dated two days after (1995). These are huge money items and account for a Lacrosse named to lose their funding. The Commission high percentage of the Sport Canada annual budget. applying the developed criteria had eliminated three sports only to have a senior government official destroy FINAL COMMENTS their credibility by intervention. It is unlikely any additional funds will be available to The letters from the Minister were seen as a 'Medal Sport Canada and almost certainly means that some Mentality' reaction. How secure was the future of the action be taken. There is consensus that some form of Core and Entry Level sports if snap decisions were being Core Sport will be introduced. taken? If implemented Core Sport will not save but rather Just prior to the Report release Sport Canada announced redistribute funds among fewer sports. The Commission a grant of $2,500,000 to assist the Quebec City bid to while cutting thirteen sports also recommended adding host the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Six 'Winter' sports nine new ones at the Entry Level.
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