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New Bond For Amateur SportBy GERRY COUtDEAUOTTAWA (CP) — Tlie newJy-formed National Sport und Recreation Centre Inc. will give i amateur sports a common I voice nnd a powerful lobby, i says presidenl-designulc Lou i Lefaivc.- The former director of Sports • Canada told about 3:K delegates' attending the annual meeting of s the Canadian Association for f Health, Physical Education and I Recreation (CAPI1ER) Wednes-■ day that the. centre is “the po-» lential framework for a. more { cohesive voice for sports.”: ' CAPHEIf, a cross-section of sports-orientated persons, , Ps . studying professional co-opera^ L tion in implementing improved . sport programs.; Later in an interview, Lefaivc I outlined some of the objectivesand policies of the centre, until now clouded by formation plans.It will officially begin operating June 17 and include a nine-member board of directors and a staff of 89.Although financed through federal grants, the centre will be independent, he said.Three representatives of the board will be from the health department, which has federal responsibility for amateur sport.The centre will provide direct administrative and technical assistance to amateur sport organizations.Reunited. •*“The reason for the corpora-1 tlon is to meet the constantly I shifting needs of the sport I bodies outside the framework of the government bureaucracy,” he said.Lefaivc said a bureaucracy Is unable to react fust enough to I he needs of the sporls. The centre will cut through red tape for them.He said the BD-70 amateur sports that will work through the centre have been nervous about the plan.They’re (sport bodies) afraid of losing Ihcir autonomy ... but what they must realize is that the corporation will give sporls a greater determination of Us own future.“Right row amateur sporls arc at the mercy of governments and big business . . . but the framework is in the corporation to give spoil a common voice or lobbying power that lias credibility with the government ami the public,” he said.The centre, at some future date, is intended to become a well-oiled machine with the sport bodies acting as purls. It will not be afraid of flexing Us muscles if the need arises, he said.The cenIre’s 1974 budget is more than SI million and Lcfaivc expects it will take two or three years before the corpora-t i o n becomes an effective power.He said thal if it has not become effective by 1976, if should be discontinued.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Thu, May 30, 1974
Page 61
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