HI299 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: List Of Canadian Television Channels, Lester B. Pearson, Federal Intervention
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1943, the canadian government passed the naional physical fitness act. Direct response to the high rejecion rate of canadian drat inductees. Parliament gave the provinces k to promote physical itness and recreaion. Naional preparedness the purpose for itness. Legalisaion conlicted with the victorian concept f gentlemen" amateur athletes. February 1945, the government announced that the naional itness branch of the federal health department will in future as a link between canadian sports organizaions and the government : public outcry against the naionalizaion of sport. The government did not have a legiimate role to play in the promoion of sport. The naional physical fitness act was repealed in 1954. Nuclear arms made the idea of naional preparedness by means of a physical itness program obsolete. Postwar technologies altered the relaionship between government and sport. By 1961, 83% of households had television sets. Canadian network television coverage was available to 94% of the populaion.
