{{Short description|Canadian inquiry into sports doping}} The '''Dubin inquiry''' was a Canadian government '''Commission of Inquiry into the Use of Drugs and Banned Practices Intended to Increase Athletic Performance''' held in 1989 after the Ben Johnson doping scandal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The commission was given to Ontario Court of Appeal Chief Justice Charles Dubin. He released his report in June 1990.<ref name="tcedi">{{cite news |title=Dubin Inquiry |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dubin-inquiry |agency=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher=Historica Canada |date=7 February 2006}}</ref><ref name="playing">{{cite book |title=Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation |publisher=University of Toronto Press |date=2015 |jstor=10.3138/j.ctt21kk0bt |isbn=9781442628205 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt21kk0bt}}</ref><ref name="ioa">{{cite book |title=TWENTY-NINTH SESSION |date=1989 |publisher=International Olympic Academy |url=https://ioa.org.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/young-participants-1989-37963-600-21.pdf}}</ref><ref name="discourses" >{{Cite book |last1=Chatziefstathiou |first1=Dikaia |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1057/9781137035561 |title=Discourses of Olympism |last2=Henry |first2=Ian P. |date=2012 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-349-33104-8 |location=London |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137035561}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Elevating the Conscience of a Sporting Nation |publisher=Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/29703299/canadian-centre-for-ethics-in-sport-bbco-strategic-storytelling}}</ref><ref name="cbcplayer">{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1743495569 |title=Dubin Inquiry report issued |last1=Mansbridge |first1=Peter |last2=Findlay |first2=Jillian }}</ref><ref name="cbcarchive">{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/damning-evidence-in-the-dubin-inquiry |title=Damning evidence in the Dubin Inquiry |first=Barbara |last=Budd |agency=As It Happens |publisher=CBC}}</ref><ref name=cyr19>Cyr, Alex, "The Silver Lining Of Sin: How Ben Johnson And The Dubin Inquiry Resonates With Canadian Olympians Since 1988" (2019). University of Windsor, #7804: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/7804</ref><ref name="ritchie12" >{{Citation |last=Ritchie |first=Ian |title=The Use of Performance-enhancing Substances in the Olympic Games: A Critical History |date=2012 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230367463_26 |work=The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies |pages=410–429 |editor-last=Lenskyj |editor-first=Helen Jefferson |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1057/9780230367463_26 |isbn=978-1-349-31965-7 |access-date=2022-03-14 |editor2-last=Wagg |editor2-first=Stephen|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Dubin wrote that doping "threatened the essential integrity of sport and is destructive of its very objectives",<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134464050 |title=Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport |date=2015-06-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-203-79534-7 |editor-last=Møller |editor-first=Verner |edition=1 |chapter=2 |language=en |doi=10.4324/9780203795347 |editor-last2=Waddington |editor-first2=Ivan |editor-last3=Hoberman |editor-first3=John}}</ref> when he issued more than 70 recommendations.<ref name=cbcplayer/> Dubin concluded that "the failure of many sport governing bodies to treat the problem more seriously and to take more effective means to detect and deter the use of such drugs has contributed in large measure to the extensive use of drugs in athletes." Dubin said that there was a "moral crisis" in sports that required society to examine the values attached to sport.<ref name=cbcplayer/>
Minister of Fitness and Amateur Sport Jean Charest was responsible for Canadian sport at the time of the scandal and afterwards. The body named Sport Canada was officially in charge, and "a predictable result from the shift in goal in Sport Canada from its original mandate in 1967 which was directed to mass participation, academic development through a national advisory committee and support for sport governing bodies in a decentralized volunteer system to its 1988 goal which was to win medals through national sport organizations."<ref name="moriarty91">{{cite news |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED330927.pdf |last=Moriarty |first=Dick |title=Legislation and Litigation Resulting from the Canadian Commission of Inquiry into the Use of Drugs and Banned Practices Intended To Increase Athletic Performance}}</ref>
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Category:1989 in Canada Category:1989 in sports Category:1988 Summer Olympics Category:Athletic sports