{"id":92327,"date":"2017-09-22T17:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/ottawa-quebec-work-to-secure-montreals-anti-doping-headquarters.html"},"modified":"2017-09-22T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:42:28","slug":"ottawa-quebec-work-to-secure-montreals-anti-doping-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/ottawa-quebec-work-to-secure-montreals-anti-doping-headquarters.html","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa, Quebec work to secure Montreal’s anti-doping headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officials from both the federal and Quebec government are heading to Paris this weekend in an effort to ensure the World Anti-Doping Agency stays in Montreal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quebec International Relations Minister Christine St-Pierre and federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau are part of a delegation who will meet with European officials.<\/p>\n

WADA is committed to staying in the city until at least 2021<\/a>. There is\u00a0speculation, however, that at that point\u00a0the office could move to Europe, closer to the International Olympic Committee, which is based\u00a0in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Marc Roy, Garneau’s spokesperson, confirmed in an email Friday that he will make the trip to meet with officials on Sunday to\u00a0“make the case for Montreal.”<\/p>\n

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The headquarters of the World Anti-Doping Agency will be in Montreal until at least 2021, when its lease ends. (Marc Braibant\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

WADA’s executive committee is slated to meet Sunday in Paris.<\/p>\n

WADA was established in Montreal\u00a0in 1999 with the help of Dick Pound, a former Canadian Olympic swimmer and the agency’s first president.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Agency has downplayed potential move<\/h2>\n

The stated goal of the organization\u00a0is to “preserve the integrity of sport and uphold the values of fair play.” It\u00a0has a staff of\u00a074 in Montreal and 88 worldwide.<\/p>\n

\"Liberal<\/p>\n

Transport Minister Marc Garneau is headed to Paris to meet with officials about WADA. (Sean Kilpatrick\/Canadian Press)<\/p>\n

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre\u00a0has repeatedly\u00a0expressed concern about the potential of losing WADA.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Coderre said he won’t be able to make the trip to Paris himself, due to the launch of the municipal election<\/a>, but stressed it’s crucial to keep the office in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Olivier Niggli,\u00a0WADA’s Director General, told Radio-Canada last March that there were no plans “moving the headquarters of the agency.”<\/p>\n

“Nothing is official about our situation after 2021, but reports about a move after that date are pure speculation,” WADA spokesperson Ben Nichols said at the time.<\/p>\n

Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/wada-marc-garneau-liberal-trudeau-1.4301948?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Officials from both the federal and Quebec government are heading to Paris this weekend in an effort to ensure the World Anti-Doping Agency stays in Montreal. Quebec International Relations Minister Christine St-Pierre and federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau are part of a delegation who will meet with European officials. WADA is committed to staying in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-92327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}