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The Dubin inquiry was a Canadian government Commission of Inquiry into the Use of Drugs and Banned Practices Intended to Increase Athletic Performance held in 1989 after the Ben Johnson doping scandal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The commission was given to Ontario Court of Appeal Chief Justice Charles Dubin. He released his report in June 1990. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Dubin wrote that doping "threatened the essential integrity of sport and is destructive of its very objectives", [10] when he issued more than 70 recommendations. [6] Dubin concluded that "the failure of many sport governing bodies to treat the problem more seriously and to take more effective means to detect and deter the use of such drugs has contributed in large measure to the extensive use of drugs in athletes." Dubin said that there was a "moral crisis" in sports that required society to examine the values attached to sport. [6]

Minister of Fitness and Amateur Sport Jean Charest was responsible for Canadian sport at the time of the scandal and afterwards. The body named Sport Canada was officially in charge, and "a predictable result from the shift in goal in Sport Canada from its original mandate in 1967 which was directed to mass participation, academic development through a national advisory committee and support for sport governing bodies in a decentralized volunteer system to its 1988 goal which was to win medals through national sport organizations." [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dubin Inquiry". Historica Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia. 7 February 2006.
  2. ↑ Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation. University of Toronto Press. 2015.
  3. ↑ TWENTY-NINTH SESSION (PDF). International Olympic Academy. 1989.
  4. ↑ Chatziefstathiou, Dikaia; Henry, Ian P. (2012). Discourses of Olympism. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9781137035561. ISBN   978-1-349-33104-8.
  5. ↑ Elevating the Conscience of a Sporting Nation. Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
  6. 1 2 3 Mansbridge, Peter; Findlay, Jillian. "Dubin Inquiry report issued".
  7. ↑ Budd, Barbara. "Damning evidence in the Dubin Inquiry". CBC. As It Happens.
  8. ↑ Cyr, Alex, "The Silver Lining Of Sin: How Ben Johnson And The Dubin Inquiry Resonates With Canadian Olympians Since 1988" (2019). University of Windsor, #7804: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/7804
  9. ↑ Ritchie, Ian (2012), Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson; Wagg, Stephen (eds.), "The Use of Performance-enhancing Substances in the Olympic Games: A Critical History", The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 410–429, doi:10.1057/9780230367463_26, ISBN   978-1-349-31965-7 , retrieved 2022-03-14
  10. ↑ Møller, Verner; Waddington, Ivan; Hoberman, John, eds. (2015-06-19). "2". Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport (1 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203795347. ISBN   978-0-203-79534-7.
  11. ↑ Moriarty, Dick. "Legislation and Litigation Resulting from the Canadian Commission of Inquiry into the Use of Drugs and Banned Practices Intended To Increase Athletic Performance" (PDF).
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