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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: Participation
Participation
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Participation.
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Participation was the name of the Canadian government program designed to encourage Canadians to get and stay physically fit.
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Created in 1971 by the federal government, participation was successful in encouraging Canadians to be active and to stay healthy.
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Participation was created by the Canadian Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
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Trudeau believed that sport and recreation should play an important role in the lives of Canadian citizens.
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His government took two steps towards the accomplishment of this goal.
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First, a government agency was created to provide funds for high performance athletes such as those training and competing in the Olympic Games.
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A second agency was created to encourage participation and physical activity in the general Canadian population.
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It was out of this second agency that participation was born.
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Participation became famous in the 1970s because of a series of television commercials.
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In these commercials, a young Canadian in his 20s was seen being outrun by a 60 year old Swedish man.
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The message was that Canadians had become lazy and inactive.
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This was probably true of Canadians at the time.
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Physical fitness was not highly encouraged in schools, especially for women.
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Also, the government played little role in encouraging physical activity before participation.
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The result of participation was impressive.
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Canadians became more active in the years following the program's inception.
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Also, fitness and activity were encouraged through physical education programs.
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Participation was seen as a positive program because it got Canadians active while reducing health care costs caused by inactivity and poor physical conditioning.
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Recently, participation was terminated by the federal government because of a lack of funding.
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Many people thought this was a shame given the positive messages the program gave to otherwise inactive Canadians.
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Despite the program's termination, participation has made a long lasting impression on Canadians.
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Hopefully it's positive example of physical fitness for Canadians will continue in the future.