City of Toronto XXIX Summer Olympic Games Bid Endorsement Act, 1998 Kells, Morley — Bill 77 (36th Parliament, 2nd Session)

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Bill 77, City of Toronto XXIX Summer Olympic Games Bid Endorsement Act, 1998

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Bill 77 1998

An Act to endorse the proposed bid of the City of Toronto to host the XXIX

Summer Olympic Games

Preamble

The City of Toronto has expressed its intention to submit a bid to the

International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the XXIX Summer Olympic Games

in the year 2008.

The ideals of the Olympic movement include promoting a peaceful

environment for the education of youth through the practice of sport without

discrimination and in a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.

Ontario supports those ideals.

Ontario recognizes that if the City of Toronto is successful in a bid to

host the Games, the Games can constitute a lasting legacy for the Province in

the form of enduring sporting facilities and increased cultural

exchanges.

Ontario can enhance the world-wide legitimacy of a bid by the City of

Toronto to host the Games by endorsing the bid and encouraging harmony,

co-operation and co-ordination among the individuals, organizations,

businesses and governments that are involved in the bid. Those actions will

also improve the subsequent organization of the Games if the bid is

successful.

Ontario supported the City of Toronto in its bid for the 1996 Summer

Games. This support included a grant of $3.102 million and a commitment of

$125 million from non-tax revenue sources to be used for capital

facilities.

Ontario has an interest in assuring all Ontario taxpayers that the City of

Toronto will provide a full financial accounting for its bid and the

subsequent organization of the Games if the bid is successful.

It is therefore reasonable to endorse the bid that the City of Toronto

proposes to make to host the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in the year 2008.

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Purposes

1. The purposes of this Act are,

(

a) to endorse the bid that the City of Toronto proposes to make to host

the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in the year 2008 subject to the terms of the

agreement to be finalized with the bid organizers; and

(

b) to encourage the municipalities and citizens of Ontario in all their

diversity to unite in support of the bid as further evidence to the IOC of

extensive provincial acclaim.

Spending and guarantees

(1) Nothing in this Act requires Ontario to spend

public money within the meaning of the Financial Administration Act

or to guarantee any payment of money.

Assurances

(2) Ontario, through the Office of the Ontario Olympics Commissioner,

shall detail through a statement to the House, the prerequisite assurances

required by the IOC to the Legislative Assembly prior to the final bid

proposal meeting of the IOC that is scheduled for Moscow in the Autumn of

Provincial participation

(3) The May 1991 Report produced by the Ministry of Tourism and

Recreation, Olympic Secretariat and entitled, "An Analysis and Report on the

Toronto Ontario Bid for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games" was written to be used

for a subsequent bid and calls for active participation by Ontario early in

the bid process including all elements of management, fundraising, planning

and guarantees that are key ingredients of the application and accordingly

the Province, through the Office of the Commissioner, may participate in the

bid process.

Declaration of support

(1) The desire to host a part of the Olympic Games is

one of the ultimate forms of support; Ontario represented by the members of

the elected Assembly confirms that all municipalities may offer their

communities and facilities as potential sites for use as practice sites or

venues during the Games.

Same

(2) Ontario requests that the elected councils of all municipalities show

their unanimity for the world-wide endeavour that is reflected in the Olympic

bid through the voluntary passing of a motion before the June 1999 meeting of

the IOC that indicates their unqualified support.

Agreement

(3) To promote a co-operative relationship between Ontario and TO-Bid, an

agreement will be struck before the June 1999 meeting of the IOC which

includes a management plan for the development of the bid and the

organization of the Games should Toronto win the right to host the XXIX

Summer Olympic Games.

Commencement

4. This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal

Assent.

Short title

5. The

short title of this Act is the City of Toronto XXIX

Summer Olympic Games Bid Endorsement Act, 1998 .

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Bill endorses the bid that the City of Toronto proposes to make to

host the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in the year 2008. The Bill recognizes that

Ontario's participation in the bid process is a necessity if it is to be

successful. This involvement can only be sustained through mutually

acceptable terms enshrined in an agreement between Ontario and the organizers

of the Toronto proposal.

The Bill also asks all municipalities in Ontario and citizens of Ontario

to support voluntarily the bid.

Copyright © 1998

Office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Date Bill stage Activity Committee

December 18, 1998

Royal Assent

Royal Assent received

December 17, 1998

Third Reading

Carried

December 3, 1998

Ordered for Third Reading

December 3, 1998

Second Reading

Carried

November 3, 1998

First Reading

Carried

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