HI299 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: List Of Canadian Television Channels, Lester B. Pearson, Federal Intervention
Document Summary
1943, the canadian government passed the national physical fitness act. Direct response to the high rejection rate of canadian draft inductees. Parliament gave the provinces k to promote physical fitness and recreation. Legalisation conflicted with the victorian concept f gentlemen" amateur athletes. February 1945, the government announced that the national fitness branch of the federal health department will in future as a link between canadian sports organizations and the government : public outcry against the nationalization of sport. The government did not have a legitimate role to play in the promotion of sport. The national physical fitness act was repealed in 1954. Nuclear arms made the idea of national preparedness by means of a physical fitness program obsolete. Postwar technologies altered the relationship between government and sport. By 1961, 83% of households had television sets. Canadian network television coverage was available to 94% of the population. Growth of tv coincided with a decline in hockey prowess.
