Wednesday, December 5, 2001

McAdam gets top sports post

By STEVE BUFFERY -- Toronto Sun
 Ottawa resident Lane McAdam will be named the new director/general of Sport Canada this week.

 McAdam is the president/CEO of the Canada Games Council and replaces Dan Smith, who left Sport Canada in June to take a position as the director of physical activity, programs and services at the University of Western Ontario in London.

 "Spending the past 10 years at the Canada Games offered me a unique vantage point (for Sport Canada)," McAdam said yesterday from his Ottawa office.

 McAdam's priorities will be to strengthen the bond between amateur sport and the private sector and maximize Canada's potential, both at a high performance and grassroots level.

 The job is arguably the most important amateur sport position in Canada. Sport Canada is the funding and development arm of the federal government, and the director general answers directly to the assistant deputy minister in the Department of Canadian Heritage.

 McAdam's resume in sport is certainly impressive. He has served as vice-president of the Canadian Sport and Fitness Administration Centre, acted as a researcher/writer for the Sub-committee on the Study of Sport in Canada in 1998, is a member of the Sport Matters Working Group and of the Canadian Olympic Association.

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