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P a n a m e r i c a n a n d P a r a P a n a m e r i c a n G a m e s
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THE TORONTO ADVANTAGE
Te plan for the oronto 2015 Pan American Games has been built with two goals in mind, both designed to create greater
opportunities for success for the Pan American Games movement and for the athletes, coaches, officials and National
Olympic Committees (NOCs) that constitute it.
Te first goal is to capitalize on the excellent work of PASO - particularly with its Commission of Olympic Solidarity - and
of individual PASO NOC’s in order to enhance and create opportunities for the success of athletes, coaches, national teams
and NOC programs of all sizes. Te second goal is to continue to build the scale, prestige and brand of the Pan American
Games, entrenching and elevating the Games’ status as one of the most important sport properties worldwide.
ConTinuing To BuiLd The Brand and infLuenCe of The Pan ameriCan games
1. GuARANTEED FiNANciAl cOmmiTmENT
A eves of governent – federa, provna and npa – are sody ehnd Toronto 2015. The Provne of Ontaro, canada’s
ost popos provne, s the Gaes’ det garantor. Ths s sere spport fro stae governent sores hh ensres
that e an exete the 2015 Gaes th an opta end of reaty and aton.
2. REVENuE-DRiViNG mARkET
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ths denes a aret that s rh th opportntes for sponsorshp, prvate setor partnershps and revene generaton.
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4. bROADcAST OF 2011 AND 2015
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n canada to d exteent for the Pan Aeran Gaes and everage sponsorshps, partnershps and tet saes for 2015.
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5. TRANSFER-OF-kNOwlEDGE AND iNFORmATiON PROGRAm
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deveopent of resores avaae to ontes and ontres that pan to d for and host ajor sport events. Toronto
2015 offer one-on-one assstane to ftre hosts for oth Pan Aeran and regona gaes, as e as provde senars
and rtten ateras on ddng and hostng est prates.
6. GAmES HOSTiNG iNTERNSHiPS
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aross tpe dspnes th the Toronto 2015 Host Organzng cottee drng the preparatons for the 2015 Gaes.
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7. VOluNTEER REcRuiTmENT
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th these vonteers partpatng n an nnovatve and oprehensve tranng progra that prepare vonteers for the
Gaes and deveop transferae ss. The vonteer anageent odes deveoped for the 2015 Pan Aeran Gaes
eoe part of a e-ased serve avaae to sport organzatons throghot the PASO onty.
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A D V A N T A G E
CREATiNG NEw OppORTuNiTiEs fOR ATHlETEs AND NOC’s
1. Athlete ScholArShipS
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ExEcuTiVE OVERViEw: Or Vson and motvaton 1
SEcTiON 1: canddate cty 9
SEcTiON 2: Doest condtons 19
SEcTiON 3: igraton and cstos 25
SEcTiON 4: cate and the Envronent 31
SEcTiON 5: Serty 37
SEcTiON 6: meda Serves 43
SEcTiON 7: Pan Aeran Vage 49
SEcTiON 8: Aoodatons 65
SEcTiON 9: Transportaton 71
SEcTiON 10: Sport Progra 79
SEcTiON 11: Venes 85
SEcTiON 12: cereones, ctre and innovaton 163
SEcTiON 13: meda Fates and Serves 171
SEcTiON 14: Teeonatons and Tehnoogy 177
SEcTiON 15: Fnane 183
SEcTiON 16: lega Affars 189
SEcTiON 17: marketng 193
SEcTiON 18: legay 199
SEcTiON 19: Parapan Aeran Gaes 207
ConTenTs
ToronTo 2015: The Promise of exCeLLenCe
Te oronto 2015 Pan American Games are more than just an event or competition – they are a promise.
For oronto 2015, this is a promise to all our riends in the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO)
that we are committed to ensuring that the oronto 2015 Games experience is unparalleled. From the
moment you begin arranging your travel, to your first steps off the airplane in oronto, to the time
when your flight home takes to the air, the oronto 2015 team is committed to providing superior
service, hospitality and convenience. Our ocus is on ensuring that all athletes have the best possible
opportunity to excel in, and enjoy, the 2015 Pan American Games.
Te best way or us to meet this goal is to allow all athletes to ocus on the “margin o victory” – the
difference that puts competitors on the podium, the difference that makes Pan American champions.
Tat difference should be talent, dedication, preparation and inspiration. It should be discipline, coach-
ing and sacrifice. But in the world o multi-sport games, the margin o victory can ofen depend on
other things, like whether or not a competitor has a comortable night’s sleep, amiliar ood, supportive
crowds or a simple trip rom the Pan American Village to the sport venue.
Te margin o victory should live in the competition o athlete against athlete, not in the logistics,
conditions and circumstances o the Games. Tose aspects o the Games, those behind-the-scenes
elements, can be the difference between disappointment and achievement, between rustration and the
podium, between a setback and a stepping stone.
Te oronto 2015 Pan American Games will ensure that the margin o victory – the margin o
excellence – is exactly where it should be – in the per ormance o your athletes. Te oronto 2015 eam
will take care o all the details so your athletes can take care o the competition.
your aThLeTes
Our first goal in hosting the Pan American Games is to help all athletes achieve their competitive goals
and to help them to meet and exceed the standards set. Te oronto 2015 Pan American Games will
be about the athletes. Our goal is to get your team to the Games more affordably, comortably and
efficiently by offering the most direct travel options, an enhanced travel grant and expedited accreditation.
Our goal is to minimize bureaucracy while maximizing saety, security, convenience and comort.
Our goal is to meet athletes’ needs and anticipate their preerences. We will also help prepare them or
success by inviting them to train in Canada with Canadian athletes or up to 18 months in the years lead-
ing up to the 2015 Games. Our goal is to ensure that athletes are able to ocus on two things while they are
in oronto: competing to the best o their abilities, and enjoying their Pan American experience.
your CoaChes and Team offiCiaLs
Your coaches and team officials are as much a part o the oronto 2015 plans as your athletes. Every coach
and official will have the benefits o the same enhanced travel, accreditation and customs/immigration
processes as the athletes, processes designed or the greatest convenience and ease. In oronto, your coach-
es and team officials will enjoy the comort o the user-riendly Pan American Village, with all the con-
veniences, amenities and security o a high perormance games village. Beore the Games, we will offer
innovative programs designed to help prepare your coaches and teams or success. During the Games,
we will enhance the access coaches and officials have to the equipment, acilities and expertise that will
maximize their ability to help your athletes excel. We understand that even in individual sports, victory is
a team achievement.
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conditions and with their attention on peror-
mance is the same approach we will take to
ensuring that all 42 Pan American National
Olympic Committees (NOC) are part o a sport
environment that gives them the ability to achieve
their goals or the 2015 Pan American Games.
In the years beore 2015, our administrative
processes and practices will be tested and perect-
ed at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
and other high-profile international events across
Canada so that everything rom accreditation
to travel will be as efficient, cost effective and
user-riendly as possible. In the pre-Games
period we will invite you to oronto to see the
Pan American Village, to train and compete in
the Games venues; we will help prepare you or
success. Our international Games legacy will
ocus on the years beore 2015, when our support
o your preparations can help turn an average
perormance into a personal best, a final into a
podium finish or a bronze medal into gold.
your Pan ameriCan sPorTs organizaTion
Te same way oronto 2015 supports the
goals o individual athletes, support staff
and NOC’s, we will support the mission and
vision o PASO. With the market size, financial
base, media inrastructure and strategic ca-
pacity to attract resources, sell tickets, involve
sponsors and extend the broadcast and media
reach o the Games, oronto 2015 wil l build the
brand, profile and reach o PASO and the Pan
American Games with a strategy that incorpo-
rates more than just the 2015 Games. oronto
2015 has an innovative broadcast and media
strategy that will help extend the reach o the
2011 Guadalajara Games, setting the stage or
2015 and beyond.
your team, your NOC and PASO, but we also have
a great deal to gain rom the privilege o hosting
the Games. Everything rom our sport inra-
structure to our economy, and rom our youth to
our high perormance athletes will benefit rom
the 2015 Pan American Games. oronto, or all
o its assets and advantages, has a number o dis-
tinct needs and opportunities that the 2015 Pan
American Games will address.
While the city already has a number o world-class proessional sport venues
ready to play key roles in 2015, oronto and its surrounding area ace signifi-
cant inrastructure needs or amateur sport and training. In Canada’s most
populous region, meeting the needs o our country’s greatest concentration
o high perormance and recreational athletes requires a significant invest-
ment in training and competition venues. Te Pan American Games will
help address that need. Tey will energize programs that support physical
activity and healthy living, they will inspire our children and youth, and they
will create local heroes. Te Games will also open the door or more young
Canadians to pursue their Pan American and Olympic dreams by putting
acilities, coaching, sport science and an intensified competitive culture on
the doorsteps o more uture champions and record holders.
oronto already has in place a number o economic, environmental, social
and service strategies that align perectly with hosting an event the size,
scope and profile o the Pan American Games. Te Pan American Games
will leverage and magniy investments in everything rom economic
opportunity to public transportation, and rom environmental remediation
to affordable housing.
Te Games will help redefine and invigorate the City o oronto, the
oronto region and the Province o Ontario.
The ToronTo adVanTage
Creating New Opportunities for Athletes and NOC’s
Te conditions, experience, talent pool and market area o oronto and its
surrounding region, along with the oronto 2015 international pre-Games
legacy plan, will provide a springboard or all PASO NOC’s and their athletes
to achieve new levels o Games preparedness and competitive excellence.
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Te oronto 2015 PASO Athlete Scholarship Program will provide
unding to support high perormance athletes in a variety o sports
rom Pan American nations to live and train in Canada with Canadian
athletes in the years leading up to the 2015 Pan American Games. Te
scholarships will include access to appropriate training acilities and a
ull-time coach, room and board, medical and sport science assistance,
accident and illness insurance, a basic allowance and return economy
airare rom their home countries to Canada.
oronto 2015 will make unds available or the PASO Athlete Scholar-
ship Program rom 2012 through to 2015. Te program will provide
scholarship unding or each NOC within PASO or up to 18 “ath-
lete months.” Tis means that each NOC could send one athlete to
Canada to train or 18 months, or 18 athletes or one month each, or
any combination in between.
2. Cc s Clc
oronto 2015 will organize and host three regional conerences per
year rom 2011 to 2014, and will cover all on-site costs (accommoda-
tion, meals and workshop ees) or coaches selected by PASO NOC’s
to help offset the cost o their coaches’ participation. oronto 2015 will
und Canadian high perormance coaches and sport experts to travel
to Pan American nations to conduct these sessions.
oronto 2015 will partner with the Coaching Association o Canada
(CAC) or the provision o this program. Te CAC has assisted a num-
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o the region’s hosting resumé. Te 2007 FIFA Under-20 World Cup
broke all tournament attendance records to become one o the largest
single-sport events in Canadian history.
At Games time, the experience and expertise already in and around
oronto will combine with the procedures, lessons and, most impor-
tantly, dedicated people with sport hosting backgrounds rom across
Canada, including veterans o the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter
Games, to make oronto 2015 one o the most ta lented and tested host
city teams in the world.
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At oronto 2015, Pan American athletes will compete in optimal con-
ditions, giving them the best chance to excel. Existing acilities in
the oronto 2015 venue plan are proven and world-class, includ-
ing venues like the Air Canada Centre, home o the National
Basketball Association’s oronto Raptors, and the Rogers Centre
which welcomed the World Baseball Classic earlier this year. All new
venues wil l be built to the highest standard in order to meet or exceed
International Sport Federation (ISF) requirements and enhance
the experience and acilitate the perormance o the athletes.
Te newly-constructed Pan American Village will meet Olympic
standards or comort and convenience and will provide a service-
oriented home-away-rom-home that is convenient and secure,
vibrant and welcoming.
Te Pan American Games are scheduled rom July 10 to 26, 2015 and
the Parapan American Games are scheduled rom August 7 to 14, 2015.
July and August in oronto provide long, warm, sunny days and com-
ortable evenings with an average daytime temperature o 26° C at a
competition-ideal altitude o 112 metres above sea level. Athletes will
compete in a clean and healthy climate ideally suited or perormance.
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oronto is amous among global visitors or its saety and cleanliness.
Te Economist magazine ranked oronto the fifh “most livable” city
in the world and the Mercer survey points to oronto as the best city
or personal saety in the Western Hemisphere. Te city’s neighbour-
hoods and streets are sae day and night; parks, ravines and a network
o hiking trails knit together the city’s urban communities. Tere are
bike paths, beaches and iconic architecture along with globally-recog-
nized museums, art galleries and perorming arts centres all walking
distance rom each other. From the third largest theatre district in the
world, to one o the highest observation decks on the planet in the CN
ower, and to the internationally-amous Niagara Falls just an hour
away, oronto offers PASO teams and athletes countless reasons to en-
joy the world-class setting o the oronto 2015 Pan American Games.
8. y ht C
oronto is home to a population that speaks more than 140 different
languages and people rom every one o the PASO countries. Sport is
one o the most powerul ways that this multicultural society has taught
and united its children, youth and communities. It is impossible to live,
work and play in oronto without seeing – every day in a thousand di-
erent ways – that oronto residents are global citizens. Every athlete who
comes to the Games will have a built-in cheering section rom his or her
own country and culture. oronto’s tapestry o nationalities also enliv-
ens the cultural lie o the city, with international estivals like Caribana,
ber o countries around the world in estab-
lishing coaching development systems based
on Canada’s National Coaching Certification
Program (NCCP). With the assistance o
oronto 2015, the CAC will also play host to
the International Council or Coach Educa-
tion (ICCE) continental coaching conerence
or the Americas in oronto in 2014, the year
beore the oronto Games.
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oronto 2015 will host in Pan American
countries three regional sport management
workshops per year rom 2011 to 2014 or
PASO NOC’s. opics will include sport mar-
keting, grant application writing, commu-
nications, media relations and event plan-
ning. oronto 2015 will cover on-site costs
or PASO participants including accom-
modation, meals and workshop ees. Sport
management proessionals rom Canada
and elsewhere will acilitate sessions on a
ull range o topics important to NOC’s and
amateur sport.
4. Tvl sppt gt Tptt
It is easy and convenient to get to oronto.
Tirty PASO countries have direct flights
to and rom oronto’s modern Lester B.
Pearson International Airport, ensuring
a minimum o delay and the greatest o con-
venience. eams rom every PASO coun-
try will have travel options available that
provide either convenient direct flights to
oronto or connecting flights through their
preerred transer location to ensure conve-
nience at every step o the journey.
Upon arrival in Canada, a tested and stream-
lined immigration and customs service will
move all athletes, coaches and officials swif-
ly through the airport and then to the Pan
American Village or host accommodations.
oronto 2015 is also providing a travel sup-
port grant that will give NOC’s real budget
relie and allow increased investment in
teams and preparation instead o airare.
5. otl ecllc epc
oronto and its surrounding region are ex-
perienced hosts o a variety o international
sport events. Te International riathlon
Union World Cup, World Basketball Cham-
pionships, World Baseball Classic and Road
World Cycling Championships are all part
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Caribbean, and Salsa on St. Clair, a dy-
namic event that highlights the city’s large
Latin community.
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amily between the opening o the Pan
American Village and three days afer the
close o the Games. All PASO officials, ac-
credited athletes, team officials and tech-
nical officials will be provided with sae,
secure and reliable transportation services
that ensure timely delivery to and rom
all accommodations and Games venues.
Te convenience o the NOC’s is a para-
mount concern or oronto 2015, so in addi-
tion to the standard allocation o dedicated
cars and drivers to the individuals holding
key leadership positions within PASO, the
IOC and the ISF’s, oronto 2015 will pro-
vide every NOC with a dedicated car and
driver or each o the NOC President and the
Secretary General regardless o team size.
Te fleet o PASO vehicles will be supported
by reserved parking and secure designated
transport acilities at the Pan American
Village and competition venues, along
with designated Pan American lanes link-
ing Pearson International Airport, the Pan
American Village, the host hotel and sport
venues.
oronto 2015 will provide PASO and all
NOC’s with an “enhanced” rate card sys-
tem that offers the best rates and greatest
convenience in obtaining the services and
resources teams might require in oronto.
oronto 2015 will source and negotiate the
services and products on the rate card well in
advance o the Games and ensure that the rate
card offerings cover all potential team needs,
rom the latest technology to telecommu-
nications services, and rom transportation
enhancements to sport-related equipment.
of the Pan American Games
Te history o the Pan American Games has been
one o building legacies and making champions.
oronto 2015 is ready to add to the growing
currency and relevance o the Pan American
Games by implementing specific plans to urther enhance the brand, reach
and influence o both PASO and the Games. Building on the achievements
o Guadalajara and previous Games host cities, oronto will use a com-
prehensive knowledge transer program to hand the Games to the 2019
host city with the Pan American Games movement in a strong position,
taking what is already one o the leading sport properties in the world and
elevating it to the next phase o its evolution.
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All levels o government – ederal, provincial and municipal – are
solidly behind oronto 2015, having already committed 90% o the
$1.4 billion (Cdn) Games budget. Te Province o Ontario, Canada’s
most populous province, has committed to being the Games’ deficit
guarantor, reflecting the strong commitment o both the govern-
ment and the Premier.
Tis is secure support rom stable government sources that provides
a rock-solid oundation to the oronto bid and to the 2015 Pan American
Games even in the context o a turbulent global economy. It en-
sures confidence in budgeting and allows or certainty in planning.
It ensures that oronto will be able to execute the 2015 Games with an
excellent blend o reliability and ambition.
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oronto is Canada’s financial capital, the third-largest financial market
in North America and home to a regional population o 8.1 million
people. Over 200 million people are within a three hour flight or one
day drive o oronto, the vast majority o these in the Eastern time zone
which is so critical to broadcast television in Canada and the United
States. All o this defines a market that is rich with opportunities
or sponsorship, private sector partnerships and revenue generation.
Particularly in these times o global economic uncertainty, the stabil-
ity o the oronto corporate base creates a market particularly well-
matched to the Pan American Games; it establishes a financial environ-
ment that both helps protect against the volatility o the world economy
and generates a wealth o opportunity.
3. m hb
oronto 2015 has ambitious media plans and the capacity to match.
As a true global media capital, oronto boasts six major daily newspa-
pers, our general all-sports television networks, a number o specialty
sport networks and one o the first al l-sports radio stations in the world.
Te intensity o the oronto media market ensures that the communi-
cations vehicles, technology and talent will be available to bring the
stories o the 2015 Pan American Games to more people in more ways
in more parts o the world. It will allow oronto 2015 to give PASO
athletes and sponsors more exposure at home while also offering ans
rom all corners o the Americas and the Caribbean unprecedented
choice in experiencing the Games at home rom the comort and con-
venience o their living rooms, offices, caés, community centres and
street corners through the use o new media and mobile technology.
4. Bct 2011 2015
oronto’s ambitious media plan – which starts long beore the 2015 Games
– will bring the Pan American Games an Olympic-style presence in
both broadcast and web-based media. oronto 2015 will work with
Guadalajara 2011 to arrange or up to 50 hours o coverage rom the
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American Games will become part o a web-based service available
to sport organizations throughout the PASO community. Specifical-
ly, the resource will include modules on key volunteer management
issues like recruitment, roles and responsibilities, orientation, train-
ing and customer service.
our resPonsiBiLiTy
For many athletes, the 2015 Pan American Games will be their first major
international competition; or others, it will be the place or striving to
qualiy or the 2016 Olympic Games or honing their skills in anticipation
o Olympic competition. Te 2015 Pan American Games will be the place
where the best-o-the-best challenge Pan American and world records; to
other athletes, the 2015 Games will be their highest level o competition.
It will be their best opportunity to wear the colours o their home coun-
tries, to march under their flags, to compete in ront o huge crowds, to
sing their anthems rom a medal podium.
We owe it to all o the athletes o the 2015 Pan American Games to deliver
a Games worthy o their efforts and dreams. While it is a privilege or any
city and nation to host the Pan American Games, it is also a responsibility.
oronto and Canada are ready to accept that responsibility, to exceed ex-
pectations and to give the athletes the outstanding Pan American Games
they deserve.
oronto is ready and eager to welcome you to Canada or the seventeenth
Pan American Games.
build excitement or the Pan American
Games and leverage sponsorships, partner-
ships and t icket sales or 2015. For the oronto
2015 Games, the Games broadcast commit-
ment will be to provide more than 300 hours
o coverage in English, French and Spanish,
and will include the ull adoption o the latest
web-based and mobile media strategies.
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oronto 2015 is committed to ensuring that
the impact o the 2015 Pan American Games
endures long afer the close o the Games.
Te international aspect o the oronto lega-
cy plan includes a multi-aceted transer-o-
knowledge program designed to help NOC’s
strengthen their organizational capabilities.
both the Canadian and PASO sport com-
munities to contribute to the on-going de-
velopment o resources available to commu-
nities and countries that plan to bid or and
host major sport events. oronto 2015 will
offer one-on-one assistance to uture hosts o
both Pan American and regional games, as
well as provide seminars and written mate-
rials on bidding and hosting best practices.
6. g ht itp
Individuals rom uture host organizing
committees throughout PASO will have the
opportunity to work in staff positions across
multiple disciplines with the oronto 2015
Host Organizing Committee during the
preparations or the 2015 Games. Te in-
ternships could begin as early as 2012, with
the program concluding at the close o the
Games in 2015. Tese placements will allow
the “intern” to return home with knowledge
that can help his or her community bid or,
win and host sport and non-sport events.
7. Vlt rctt
Te anticipated 19,000 Games volunteers
required or oronto 2015 will include vol-
unteers recruited rom diverse communi-
ties, with all volunteers participating in an
innovative and comprehensive training pro-
gram that will prepare them or the Games
and develop transerable skills that enhance
their abilities or uture volunteer and proes-
sional positions.
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oronto is a global city, one o the top ten in the world, according to Foreign Policy magazine’s Global
Cities Index. As one o only our cities on the index in the Western Hemisphere and the only one
outside o the United States, oronto has the character, culture and technology, along with the corpo-
rate support and the talent base to excel as the host o the 2015 Pan American Games.
oronto offers the cultural richness and diversity
that ensures a lively and welcoming Pan American
Games with crowds ready to support every one o the
PASO teams. oronto’s innovation-based economy
and cultural sector will be reflected in the planning
o the oronto 2015 Games, including inspiring cre-
ative new directions in managing media, technology
and the Games legacy. oronto 2015 will ocus on en-
vironmental responsibi lity and sustainabil ity in the
pursuit o hosting the “greenest” Pan American
Games ever. oronto’s well-known hospitality ensures that PASO athletes, teams and officials will
receive a warm welcome. Te city’s position as a major global transportation hub, with efficient intra-
urban transport and tested customs and immigration procedures, will ensure that teams arrive and
get everywhere they need to be easily and swifly.
orontonians embrace sport and culture. For decades, the multicultural city has turned to sport to
unite communities, to involve children and youth, engage amilies and seniors, and bring generations
together. Te culturally-rich city puts world-class museums, iconic architecture, music estivals, one
o the world’s top film estivals, and regional attractions like the globally-recognized Niagara wine
region and the legendary Niagara Falls all within easy reach.
oronto is a world-class city that is ready or the world-class Pan American Games.
hisTory and geograPhy
In 2009, oronto is celebrating the 175th anniversary o its incorporation. With an urban heritage that
dates back more than 200 years and a history as an Aboriginal Canadian community that extends
or centuries beore that, the city o today inherits a rich historical legacy.
Situated on the shore o Lake Ontario – one o the largest lakes in the world and part o North
America’s Great Lakes system – oronto quickly grew to become one o Canada’s most important cit-
ies on the strength o an industrial, transportation and finance-based economy. Te rise o the railway
system in the mid-Nineteenth Century was a significant impetus to oronto’s growth, given its location in
the heart o Canada. Te early part o the wentieth Century was a period o tremendous development or
oronto, with a booming manuacturing industry and major investments in cultural institutions such
as the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery o Ontario and the Canadian Opera Company.
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ToronTo ranKed in The ToP Ten gLoBaL CiTies
The ct of Toronto raned forth n “ctra Experene”
ehnd on london, Pars and Ne yor n Foreign
Policy agazne’s anna Goa ctes index, hh
rans ajor tes n sness, han, tehnooga,
tra and pota ategores.
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PoPuLaTion and immigraTion
oronto is Canada’s largest city and the fifh most populous munici-
pality in North America. Te region that surrounds the city, reerred
to locally as the “GA” or Greater oronto Area, is home to more than
5.5 million people (inter-census estimate 2008) with the broader regional
airPorT QuiCK faCTs:
• 15 arnes th ghts eteen
canada and PASO ontres
• 277 ghts and 40,090 seats per
ee to mexo, centra Aera,
Soth Aera and the carean
• 7,040 ghts and 638,440 seats per
ee to unted States and canadan
destnatons
CiTy in The worLd
Toronto s one of the on tes n the western Hesphere to
ae the top ten st of The Economist agazne’s ranng of
132 tes ord-de on fators ndng stat, heath are,
tre, envronent, edaton and nfrastrtre.
As oronto became the ocus o Canada’s finan-
cial institutions and markets, the local economy
served as a magnet to both immigrants and
relocated Canadians. By 1976, oronto had
passed Montreal to become Canada’s largest city.
Te capital o the Province o Ontario, oronto
is located just over an hour’s drive rom the
American border and within a one-hour flight o
60% o the North American population.
size
33,500 km, wrapped around the western end
o Lake Ontario, with the City o oronto
accounting or 641 km2. While this region is the
home to more than 100 distinct municipalities
(16 o which have populations o more than
100,000), it is not an entirely urban area.
More than a quarter o the region (7,200 km2)
is environmentally-protected “green belt.”
port (named or the Nobel Peace Prize win-
ning ormer Canadian Prime Minister) is one
o the 30 highest-capacity world airports with
33 million passengers using the airport in 2008.
Te airport is located just 25 km northwest o
downtown oronto. Direct access to the airport
is provided by major highways with dedicated
entry and exit ramps. Te airport road system
is integrated into the regional transportation
system. Te construction o a rail link between
Pearson Airport and downtown oronto is a top
priority within the regional transit plan, and will
be completed by 2015.
LongiTude: 79° 23’ W (West Geenwch, Engnd)
LaTiTude: 43° 39’ N (Nth Equt)
aLTiTude: 112 / 367t be se ee
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living within an hour’s drive o the Games area.
Tis regional population represents two-thirds
o the population o the Province o Ontario
and approximately one-fifh o the population
o Canada. Te oronto region will continue
to expand in the coming years with projections
taking the population to more than 11.5 million
people within two decades. Te main driver
o that growth will be immigration.
Te composition o oronto’s population has
evolved dramatically over the last our centuries.
Originally an important Aboriginal Canadian
community, the city’s urban origins came with
the arrival o settlers rom France and, primar-
ily, the United Kingdom. Te wentieth Century
turned oronto into one o the most immigration-
riendly cities in the world. oday, the Organization
or Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) calls oronto the most culturally-diverse
city among its member nations.
More than 100,000 immigrants, represent-
ing at least 60 different ethnicities, arrive in the
GA every year, helping to create a cosmopoli-
tan environment in which more than 140 di-
erent languages are spoken, and over 90 differ-
ent aith groups peaceully coexist. wenty-two
percent o the regional population is comprised
o first-generation Canadians with at least one
parent born outside Canada and a remark-
able 52% o orontonians aged 15 or older
are themselves immigrants. With 46% o
oronto’s overall population being oreign-
born, the city ranks well ahead o cosmopol-
itan cities like Miami (37%), New York (28%)
and London (27%) or its international influ-
ence and character.
While retai l and wholesale trade is still oronto’s
largest single industry group, comprising 15% o
the local labour orce, the regional economy is
making a significant shif toward knowledge-
based enterprise including university-based research, technology and the
rise o the “creative class.” Te proessional services sector is now the largest
generator o jobs in the City o oronto.
he regional GDP o $222 billion (Cdn) is 19% o the national total.
oronto is not immune to the pressures o international economic
uncertainty. Yet the city is as well-positioned as any to remain sta-
ble and prosperous while contributing powerully to the interna-
tional recovery. oronto’s particular strength comes rom its eco-
nomic diversity and its position as the ocus o Canada’s strong
financial sector – five o the country’s six largest banks have their head-
quarters in downtown oronto, the base o the third largest financial centre
in North America.
oronto boasts three major national television networks; six major daily
newspapers (two with national readership); our general al l-sports tele-
vision networks; no ewer than seven specialty sport networks covering
everything rom basketball to motorsports, and rom combative sports
to international sports; and one o the first all-sports radio stations in
the world.
Te city is so well equipped with production acilities and equipment,
along with the associated trades and talent required or the production
ToronTo and region eConomy QuiCK faCTs:
• laor Fore (2009): 3,138,280
• largest indstr Grop (2008): Reta and whoesae Trade
(15% of a jos)
• Fastest Grong indstr Grop: Professona Serves
(no 12% of a jos)
• unepoent Rate (Janar 2009): 7.4%
• Per capta inoe (2007): $35,974
• Reta Saes (2008): $58.1 on
ToronTo: Paso’s home away from
home
regon’s popaton as orn n the
carean, centra Aera, Soth
Aera, the unted States or mexo. onTario Trade wiTh souTh ameriCa,
CenTraL ameriCa & CariBBean
Cdn$ 2006 2007
Soth Aera Doest exports $1,038,900,052 $1,101,828,871
Tota ports $3,701,261,852 $4,099,973,895
Tota trade $4,740,161,904 $5,201,802,766
Doest exports $531,675,803 $546,332,989
Tota ports $712,968,740 $775,248,334
Tota trade $1,244,644,543 $1,321,581,323
Tota ports $13,542,034,534 $13,911,303,833
Tota trade $15,668,890,423 $15,956,435,279
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1. Too, Japan
8. boston, unted States
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34. Santago, che
35. Sao Pao, braz
40. caraas, Venezea
o television and film, that oronto has become
known as “Hollywood North” or its ability to
support numerous large movie productions si-
multaneously.
est concentration o universities and colleges in
Canada with 20 certificate, diploma and degree
granting post-secondary institutions. In the last
decade and a hal, both the Canadian ederal
government and the Ontario provincial gov-
ernment have made significant investments in
the learning and innovation inrastructure o
the province. Four Nobel Laureates in scientific
disciplines have achieved their research break-
throughs in Ontario. Increasingly, the oronto
region is becoming home to cutting-edge inno-
vation companies working in everything rom
consumer electronics (companies like RIM, the
inventors o the Blackberry smartphone) to bio-
technology (companies like Biovail, a pioneer-
ing pharmaceutical company based in Canada
with operations in the United States, Barbados
and Puerto R ico).
(WIPO) measures innovation in a survey o
global cities by tallying patents received, one o
the most direct measures available or quantiy-
ing innovation. oronto has ranked in the top
twenty worldwide or the last our years.
safe CiTy
oronto offers an outstanding quality o lie: green and vital neighbour-
hoods, quality housing, an efficient public transport system, superior
schools and health-care acilities, numerous parks and playgrounds, and
great recreation opportunities.
CuLTuraL insTiTuTions and eVenTs
oronto is a world cultural centre, ranked ourth or “cultural experience”
in the Global Cities Index behind only London, Paris and New York.
Te city’s arts and cultural activities are housed in breathtaking
buildings designed by some o the world’s great architects, including
Frank Gehry (the Art Gallery o Ontario), Daniel Libeskind (the Royal
Ontario Museum), Arthur Erickson (Roy Tomson Hall) and Diamond
and Schmidt (the brand new Four Seasons Centre or the Perorming Arts,
home o the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet o
Canada) among others. Each o these cultural gems is in close proximity
to key Games venues.
Te city is also filled with scores o theatres, both small and large,
making oronto the third-largest live theatre centre in the world behind
London’s West End and New York’s Broadway.
Te rich estival program in oronto lends the city a vibrant, high-profile and
international character.
Te Tt ittl fl ftvl is among the most prestigious film
estivals in the world. Every September, the estival attracts a who’s-who
o global cinema to its premieres, galas and parties. With its flawless ex-
ecution o the rigorous security and high-end hospitality demands o the
estival or more than thirty years, oronto is well rehearsed in providing
VIP visitor treatment.
Te Cb ftvl is an exciting two-week explosion o Caribbean
music, cuisine and visual and perorming arts. Now in its 42nd year,
it has become a major international event and the largest estival o its kind
in North America, attracting more than 1.3 million people rom the
oronto region and around the world.
Te Lt ftvl at Ctvt is the world’s newest international
multidisciplinary arts estival. In 2007, the inaugural estival attracted more
than one million participants to more than 100 events, including ten world
premieres and three Canadian premieres. Luminato’s program encom-
passes a broad spectrum o creative expression including music, dance,
theatre, film, literature, visual arts and lectures.
Aordng to the 2008 merer srve on goa vat, an
anass that nvoves 215 tes ordde, Toronto rates as
the est t for persona safet (a easre that norporates
ratngs of stat, re and a enforeent) n the
western Hesphere.
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ree amily street party celebrating oronto’s
Latin cultures. Scheduled or early July, the
estival eatures pulsating music, passionate
dancing, fiery oods, a Latin market, a children’s
area and an interactive ootball pavilion.
Te C abl ftvl has been one
o the country’s most dynamic cultural events
or a decade and a hal. Held annually in
November in the Rogers Centre (site o the 2015
Pan American Games Opening and Closing
Ceremonies), the estival attracts people rom
all cultures to celebrate the art, history and
culture o North America’s Aboriginal peoples.
exPerienCe in hosTing
major international games and sport events and
the oronto region has played host to many o
them. From sailing to ootball, oronto organizers
are constantly delivering successul events and
learning with each experience while oronto ans
support international events with remarkable
enthusiasm, owing in part to the act that many
orontonians cheer or Canadian athletes as well
as those rom their home nations.
Te list o oronto’s non-sport hosting experi-
ence is also significant, and includes the 17th
World Youth Day rom July 23 to 28 in 2002.
Tis Catholic Youth Festival involved 176,100
registrants and drew one million people or an
overnight vigil and papal mass.
oronto has hosted the G7 World Economic
Summit (1988) and next year wil l host the 2010 G8
Summit (with the leaders o France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada)
at a retreat just north o the city in Huntsville, Ontario. Te city is also
a destination or major international conerences including the 2006
XVI International AIDS Conerence and the 2001 International
Association o Chies o Police Annual Conerence.
oronto also has extensive experience in hosting sport events, including the
International Bowl o American ootball in 2007, 2008 and 2009; the
2004 World Cup o Ice Hockey; the 2006 Barclays Churchill Cup o
rugby; and the Breeders Cup World Toroughbred Championship o
horse racing in 1996. Add to that annual events such as the AP/WA
Masters Series Rogers Cup o ennis, Canadian Open gol on the
PGA (Proessional Golers Association) our, and the Grand Prix o
oronto in open-wheel automobile racing and oronto is a tested
event host by any measure and ready to apply that experience to the 2015
Pan American Games.
PuBLiC suPPorT and weLComing aTTiTude
orontonians overwhelmingly support the city’s bid or the 2015 Pan
American Games. Te municipal, provincial and ederal governments –
with all-party support – each endorsed participation in the bid, commit-
ting both time and financial resources to ensuring the success o both the
oronto 2015 bid and the Games.
luminaTo FesTiVal 2007 PHOTO cREDiT: TOuRiSm TORONTO
World YouTh daY, 2002 PHOTO cREDiT: ciTy OF TORONTO ARcHiVES
reCenT inTernaTionaL sPorT hosTing exPerienCe
• 2009: word basea cass
• 2007: FiFA u-20 word cp
• 2006: Jnor Pan Aeran Artst and Rhth word
Gnasts chaponshps
• 2003: Road word cng chaponshps
• 1999: Roa canadan word Rong chaponshps
• 1999: FiSA word Rong chaponshps
• 1998: cONcAcAF woen’s Foota chaponshps
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eral population support the bid to host the Pan
American Games in 2015.
outstanding service to millions o visitors each
year. In 2007, the oronto region welcomed 19.5
million visitors. Te City o oronto and near-
by Niagara Falls are Canada’s two most-visited
tourist attractions. As a result, the region’s ho-
tels, restaurants, public transportation, services
and airports are well-experienced and well-
prepared to welcome visitors rom around the
world, in their own languages and styles.
a CiTy of VoLunTeers
25% o adult Ontarians serving in at least one
ormal volunteer capacity. Trough volunteer-
intensive events such as the 2003 Road World
Cycling Championships and the annual Canadian
Open event on the PGA our, the oronto re-
gion has developed an extensive database o
trained and experienced volunteers numbering
in the tens o thousands. Tere is also a strong
contingent o volunteers that is experienced in
delivering important national and regional
sport events rom the annual Scotiabank
oronto Waterront Marathon to the Canadian
Dragon Boat Championships to the Longboat
oronto Island Run, a 10 km race named in
honour o one o Canada’s greatest Aboriginal
athletes, om Longboat, a distance runner who
competed in the 1908 Olympics and won the
1907 Boston Marathon in record time. Tese
volunteers – leaders in the oronto community
– are available to support the Pan American
Games in 2015 with their tested skills and out-
standing enthusiasm.
oronto 2015 will involve more than 19,000 volunteers. Many o these volun-
teers will have sport-specific knowledge and the ability to speak more than
one language.
Bid organizaTionaL sTruCTure
Te oronto 2015 Pan American Games Bid Corporation is a not-or-profit
corporation. Its mandate is to develop and lead the oronto bid or the 2015
Pan American Games.
Te oundation o the Bid Corporation is a strong partnership among
the three levels o government: municipal, provincial and ederal,
along with the Canadian Olympic Committee. In assembling the bid
team, oronto 2015 has involved people with a wide range o expertise
and talents, covering areas rom sport management to inrastructure
development, rom finance to revenue generation, rom technology to
marketing, and rom event management to broadcasting.
oronto 2015 has also established a transition plan that will ensure,
i oronto wins the privilege o hosting the 2015 Pan American Games, that
the bid team will be able to initiate the swif transormation rom bid cor-
poration to host organizing committee. oronto will lose no time in turning
rom the task o bidding to hosting.
ToronTo 2015 Bid LeadershiP BiograPhies
T hbl dv Pt - C, Tt 2015
P ac g B Cpt
Mr. Peterson, a ormer Premier o Ontario, was asked
by the current Premier to lead the oronto 2015 bid.
Mr. Peterson is a senior partner and Chairman o the
oronto law firm o Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP,
where he practices corporate/commercial law. He
also is Chancellor o the University o oronto
and a director o St. Michael’s Hospital, the Shaw
Festival and the oronto Community Foundation. Mr. Peterson was elect-
ed as a Member o the Ontario Legislature in 1975 and became leader o
the Ontario Liberal Party in 1982. He served as Premier o the Province
between 1985 and 1990, overseeing a very active period o reorm. He also
was the ounding Chairman o oronto’s National Basketball Association
team, the oronto Raptors. In 2009, Mr. Peterson was appointed to the
Order o Ontario, being recognized or his public and community service
contributions.
J Pk – Pt C opt oc,
Tt 2015 P ac g B Cpt
Prior to joining the Bid in October 2008, Jagoda Pike
served as President o Star Media Group and Publisher
o the Toronto Star , Canada’s largest newspaper.
While with orstar, Ms. Pike also has held the roles o
Executive Vice-President o Newspapers and Publisher
o the Hamilton Spectator . Ms. Pike was also the past
chair o the Canadian Newspaper Association and a
member o a number o community organization boards. As President
and Chie Operating Officer o the Bid, Ms. Pike leads day-to-day opera-
tions and development o Bid plans, applying her experience rom her
work on Commonwealth Games bids.
ToronTo: Third mosT PoLiTe CiTy
in The worLd
36 tes ordde for poteness,
ortes and stoer serve.
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yor, unted States and Zrh,
Stzerand.
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Bid organizaTionaL sTruCTure: The ToronTo 2015 bid corPoraTion is made uP oF sTronG ParTnershiPs aT The local, ProVincial and naTional leVels.
Board
Chair
The Hnube Dd Petesn
PresidenT
Bid BooK
inTernaTionaL reLaTionssPorTs Program
CommuniCaTions
ToronTo 2015 bid corPoraTion
GovErNmENT of CaNaDa • ProviNCE of oNTario • CiTy of ToroNTo • CaNaDiaN olymPiC CommiTTEE
Board of direCTors
T hbl dv Pt – Chair J Pk – President & Chie Operating Officer
dv Bl – President, Orlick
Industries Limited, owner o
BC Lions
Canadian Olympic Committee
Legislature
& Secretary, Provincial Building
Breweries o Canada
Chair, Caribana Festival and Chair
o Ontario Place
Resources, Decoma International
Canadian Sport Centre Ontario
2008 Paralympic Games
Ontario Ministry o Health
Member, Canadian Olympic
CEO, L’Oreal Canada
Vice-President, Latin America,
Games Athlete – Dressage
President & Managing Director,
CB Richard Ellis
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DOmESTic cONDiTiONS
Since it became a nation on July 1, 1867, Canada has been a remarkably peaceul and stable democracy.
For the first 64 years o its existence, Canada recognized its origins as a British colony by remaining or-
mally connected to, though unctionally independent o, the British Parliament. In 1931, the Statute of
Westminster granted Canada greater independence in creating laws and managing the affairs o the na-
tion, but it was not until 1982 that Canada patriated its constitution. Te Constitution Act: 1982 severed
Canada’s connection to the British Parliament and, significantly, entrenched the landmark Charter of
Rights and Freedoms in the constitution.
Te Charter describes a comprehensive set o rights
and reedoms that in many ways define the Canadian
character and domestic conditions. Te “Fundamental
Freedoms” o the Charter include reedoms o con-
science, religion, thought, belie, opinion, expression,
peaceul assembly and association. Te Charter also
prescribes democratic rights, mobility rights, legal
rights and rights related to equality and language.
Canada’s guiding documents and philosophies have
played key roles in preparing oronto to host the 2015
Pan American Games. Tey have encouraged the im-
migration patterns that have resulted in the diverse,
cosmopolitan makeup o the oronto region. Tey
have helped turn Canada into a leader in access, pro-
gramming and opportunities or people with disabili-
ties, thus making oronto an outstanding match or the Parapan American Games. Tey have helped
create a national identity that encourages a welcoming, respectul and accommodating environment
or all cultures, ethnicities, creeds and languages. Tat identity ensures that the decision-making pro-
cesses that shape oronto 2015 are transparent and accountable, and that a oronto Games have the
ability to orge partnerships both within Canada and in the international community in ways that will
benefit the Pan American Games significantly.
Canada’s domestic conditions make it an ideal host or
an international, multi-sport event on the scale o the
Pan American Games. All three levels o government
are aligned behind oronto 2015, bridging political
party lines to ensure the stability o government sup-
port or both the bid and the Games, rom the first day
o bid activity to the Closing Ceremony in 2015.
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Canada By The numBers
• 30.4 on nternatona vstors n 2007
• Seond argest ountr n the word b area:
17,075,000 k2
• longest oastne of an ountr n the word:
243,042 k
891,163 k2
ToronTo 2015
Toronto 2015 has support fro a three eves of
canadan governent and a-part support n both the
Ontaro legsature and canada’s natona Paraent.
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Canada is a ederation o ten provinces and three
territories. Te central ederal government con-
ducts Canada’s international relations, plays the
lead role in managing the country’s inrastruc-
ture, economy, deense and immigration. Te
ederal government has three branches: a Legisla-
ture, composed o the elected House o Commons
(also reerred to as Parliament) and the appointed
Senate; an Executive composed o the Prime Min-
ister and Cabinet; and an independent Judiciary,
headed by the Supreme Court o Canada.
Pvcl Ttl gvt
Te thirteen provincial and territorial govern-
ments have lead responsibility or social services,
education, health care, cultural policies, roads
and highways, and the promotion o economic
development. Each provincial and territorial
government in Canada has a structure similar
to that o the ederal government except or the
absence o a provincial equivalent to the Senate.
Te provinces have their own judiciary with
law-making powers that are protected by the
Constitution Act .
provide a wide range o public services includ-
ing social welare programs, policing and local
transportation. Municipal governments are most
directly involved in responding to the practical
needs o citizens, businesses and visitors. Tey
are responsible or such matters o daily impor-
tance as water and wastewater, local roads and
inrastructure, public libraries, sport and recre-
ation programming and many social services. In
most o these areas, municipalities work within
standards set by one or both o the other orders o
government, thus ensuring, or example, that all
municipal water plants in Ontario meet the same
rigorous standards or saety and quality.
abl Ppl
the First Nations, Inuit and Métis – represent al-
most 4% o the country’s population – more than
a million people. National representative bod-
ies o Aboriginal people in Canada include the
Assembly o First Nations, the Inuit apiriit
Kanatami, the Métis National Council, the
Native Women’s Association o Canada, the
National Association o Friendship Centres and
the Congress o Aboriginal People. First Nations
political organizations are spread throughout Canada and vary in political
standing, viewpoints and reasons or orming. First Nations communities
negotiate with the Government o Canada over all matters concerning land,
entitlement and rights.
In addition to its public and governmental institutions, Canada recognizes
tens o thousands o non-governmental organizations, including more than
84,000 registered charities, many o which are oronto-based. Tese organiza-
tions, ofen ormed at the grassroots level, provide much o the leadership and
support or sport, recreational and cultural activities in the country. Tough
independent and accountable to their own members and participants, they
may receive varying degrees o unding rom ederal, provincial and munici-
pal governments. Tis network o non-governmental organizations is a vital
component o Canadian democracy and a critical element o staging an event
o the size, complexity and profile o the Pan American Games.
Te organizational inrastructure and volunteer talent pool represented
in this vast resource o Canadian not-or-profit organizations will provide
a significant part o the human and intellectual capital required to plan,
manage and organize the 2015 Pan American Games.
spt ozt
Sport in Canada is organized at all levels. Te Canadian Olympic Committee
(COC) is the National Olympic Committee (NOC) which oversees the de-
velopment o Canada’s high perormance athletes. Te COC works closely
with each o the country’s National Sport Organizations (NSO) (including
an NSO or every PASO sport) and Sport Canada (an arm o the ederal
government) to provide programs and services to Canadian Olympic-level
athletes. Te provincial governments work with provincial sport organiza-
tions to develop “next generation” high perormance athletes as well as devel-
oping sport at the grassroots level. Local or regional sport organizations work
with their member clubs to promote their sports at the local level, recruiting
both recreational and competitive athletes. Many municipalities und com-
munity-based sport programs in order to increase sport participation.
At the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Canada finished 4th in
the overall medal count with 138 medals. In 2008 at the Olympic Games in
Beijing, Canada placed 14th in the overall medal count with 18 medals.
PoLiTiCaL ParTies
As a country committed to reedom o opinion, expression and associa-
tion, Canada currently has 19 registered political parties. No political par-
ty is banned. While many ederal political parties have direct provincial
counterparts, this is not always the case – a party may unction within a
particular province, but not at the ederal level or vice versa.
Tere are currently our political parties represented with seats in the
ederal House o Commons and five political parties that each received
more than 6.8% o the popular vote in the most recent ederal election
(October 14, 2008).
In Ontario, there are three parties represented with seats in the Legislature.
Te most recent election was held on October 10, 2007.
All parties represented in both Canada’s House o Commons and Ontario’s
Legislature support the oronto 2015 Pan American Games bid.
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federaL PoLiTiCaL ParTies
T Cvtv Pt – gvt C:
Since February 2006 the Conservative Party o
Canada (CPC) has ormed the government. Te
CPC holds 143 o 308 (46%) seats in the House
o Commons. Te Prime Minister o Canada
is Te Right Honourable Stephen Harper.
Te Government o Canada strongly supports
oronto’s bid to host the 2015 Pan American
Games.
T Lbl Pt – ocl oppt:
Te Liberal Party o Canada is the Official
Opposition in the House o Commons.
Te Liberal Party holds 77 o 308 (25%) seats
in Parliament. Te leader o the opposition is
Michael Ignatieff. Te Liberal Party o Canada
supports oronto 2015.
ot fl Pltcl Pt:
Te Bloc Québécois holds 49 o the 308 seats•
in Parliament
in Parliament
but received 6.8% o the popular vote in the
most recent election
ProVinCiaL PoLiTiCaL ParTies
T Lbl Pt – gvt ot:
Te Liberal Party o Ontario was re-elected
with a majority government on October 10,
2007 capturing 71 o 107 (66%) seats in the
Provincial Legislature. Te Premier o Ontario
is Te Honourable Dalton McGuinty. Te
Government o Ontario strongly supports
oronto 2015, and is the deficit guarantor o
the oronto 2015 Games.
– ocl oppt:
Te Progressive Conservative Party o Ontario
holds 26 o 107 (24%) seats in the Provincial
Legislature. Te Progressive Conservative Party
o Ontario supports oronto 2015.
T n dctc Pt ot:
Te New Democratic Party (NDP) o Ontario
holds 10 o 107 (9%) seats in the Provincial
Legislature. Te NDP supports oronto 2015.
muniCiPaL goVernmenT
oronto’s municipal government has 44 elected city councillors who,
along with Mayor David Miller, make up oronto City Council. Te
council voted overwhelmingly to support the city’s bid or the 2015 Pan
American Games.
Canadian jurisdictions have fixed election dates so that elections
occur on a regu lar cycle (usually every our years). Federal and provincial
elections are usually in October with municipal elections taking place
every our years in November.
calendar For uPcominG elecTions (uP To 2015)
JurisdicTion daTe oF nexT elecTion
Tt: mayr Nveber 2010 and 2014
ot: Preier octber 2011
c: Prie minister octber 2012
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immigrants rom around the globe. Tis has helped
Citizenship and Immigration Canada develop one o
the world’s most efficient and user-riendly processes or
acilitating the entry o oreign travelers into the country.
oronto 2015 has a clear mission or the immigration and
customs processes o the Pan American Games: to move
both Pan American people and goods into Canada in a
timely and convenient manner. Te Games-specific pro-
cesses and services that oronto 2015 has designed and
adopted support this mission and also reflect both current
global security concerns and Canada’s history as a nation
that is welcoming to visitors rom around the world.
From the moment athletes, officials, coaches, dignitaries, media, team members and PASO amily
arrive in Canada as guests o the oronto 2015 Pan American Games, they will receive a warm Canadian
welcome. Te Games’ immigration and customs procedures will respect the Pan American Games
accreditation process and, through the cooperative efforts o the Canada Border Services Agency,
the Canada Revenue Agency and the oronto 2015 team, will acilitate the enhanced convenience,
timeliness and efficiency o processing both people and goods as they enter Canada.
immigraTion reguLaTions
Canada welcomes millions o oreign nationals into the country every year as tourists, students and
temporary workers. Everyone who comes to Canada enters the country through the provisions o the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act . Te act describes the requirements and exceptions or visitors
regarding the application or and acquisition o travel visas.
Te Government o Canada and oronto 2015 will work together to ensure smooth and timely
processing o applications or entry into Canada or the Pan American Games by members o
the PASO amily and any other Games participants duly accredited by their respective National
Olympic Committees.
VaCCinaTion reQuiremenTs
Tere are no vaccination requirements or visitors staying less than six months in Canada.
Similarly, when the duration o a visit is less than six months, no medical examination is required,
unless the applicant is planning to work in an occupation in which the protection o public health
is essential.
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imPorTaTion of goods
Agency and oronto 2015 will work together
to acilitate the temporary importation, by
members o the PASO amily, o all materials
and equipment related to their par ticipation in
the Games. Tese items may include, but are
not limited to, firearms and ammunition or
competitors in the shooting events, medical
supplies, computers, computer sofware and
photographic equipment.
they are not being imported or sale, lease or
processing, will qualiy or customs duty-ree
entry. As well, Canadian regulations provide
or relie rom customs duties, excise taxes and
the Goods and Services ax (GS) on goods
imported permanently into Canada or the
Games. Tis has long been the Canadian prac-
tice or international sport events and it will be
part o the oronto 2015 procedures.
d mcl eqpt
Tere are no restrictions on bringing over-the-
counter medications into Canada. Prescription
medication should be in the original packag-
ing with a label that describes the prescription.
I this is not possible, then carrying the pre-
scription or a letter rom the prescribing doc-
tor will suffice.
ucts such as medical devices controlled by the
Food and Drugs Act and the Controlled Drugs
and Substances Act , are not allowed into Canada
without proper authorization and documentation.
Te Health Canada Regional Operations Centre
or Ontario, located in oronto, will work directly
with any members o the PASO amily who will
be required to bring these drugs or products into
Canada or the Pan American Games.
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into Canada. oronto’s Pearson Internation-
al Airport has the expertise and capacity to
receive and transport horses saely and effi-
ciently. oronto 2015 and the Greater oronto
Airport Authority (GAA) will work together
to ensure that horses taking part in the eques-
trian events will receive appropriate attention,
processing and handling.
Well in advance o the Games, oronto 2015 will provide all PASO nations
with a list o required equine vaccinations and certificates o health, along
with a detailed description o any applicable quarantine processes.
eQuine air TraVeL
Toronto’s Pearson Arport has the apat to hande ore than
35,000 horses a ear. That eans the arport’s fates and
experened staff an anage the arrvas and departres of
approxate 100 horses a da.
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CondiTions for ComPeTiTion
July and August in oronto are the peak o the Canadian
summer and present optimal conditions or athletic
competition. With long, warm, dr y days and approx-
imately 15 hours o daylight (sunrise around 6:00 am and sunset around 9:00 pm), the weather is an
asset to both the perormance o athletes and the comort o spectators. At 112 m (367 f) above sea level,
downtown oronto’s altitude is similar to the sites o many major international competitions, ensuring
that athletes will compete in conditions that are both amiliar and comortable, particularly or endur-
ance athletes. Te topography o the region, which is mostly flat with some altitude changes around
ravines, river beds and the Niagara Escarpment, provides both the consistency o flat terrain and the
challenge o steep terrain (as appropriate) or events such
as mountain biking and road cycling.
oronto is situated on the northern shore o Lake
Ontario, the 14th largest lake in the world and one o
the Great Lakes. With a surace area o approximately
19,000 km2 (7,350 mi2), the lake is a moderating influ-
ence on the city’s summer temperatures, particularly
in the waterront area that is the location o high-profile venues like the Rogers Centre, the Air Canada
Centre and the Pan American Village. Lake Ontario also offers a variety o conditions or sailing com-
petition and a magnificent backdrop or the Games’ cultural activities.
CLimaTe deTaiLs
oronto experiences our distinct seasons, with January being the coldest month o winter and July
being the warmest month in the summer.
During the period o the oronto 2015 Pan American
Games – July 10 to 26 – average conditions are opti-
mal or all summer sports: daytime high temperatures
average 26.4° C (79° F) with a 24-hour average tem-
perature o 22.2° C (72° F). Te average daily low is
17.9° C (64° F).
Te summer months provide occasional periods o
hot and humid weather; an average year will see 4.6 days
in July with temperatures exceeding 30° C (86° F), while
average monthly rainall or July is just 67 mm. One in
three days, on average, will offer some precipitation, but
only one day in nine has rainall greater than 5 mm.
At 112 (367 ft) aove sea eve, downtown Toronto’s
attde ensres that athetes w opete n
ondtons that are oth faar and ofortae,
partar for endrane athetes.
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perod s J 10 to 26, 2015.
JuLy aVerage weaTher CondiTions
• Date hgh: 26.4° c (79° F)
• Average da teperatre: 22.2° c (72° F)
• Average ner of das n J wth ore than
5 of ran: 3
• Average wnd ondtons:
- 8:00 a to 11:00 a: 11.4 k/hr
- 11:00 a to 4:00 p: 15.2 k/hr
- 4:00 to 7:00 p: 10.1 k/hr
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Te City o oronto manages the largest drink-
ing water treatment system in Canada and
achieves standards or water quality ar be-
yond those required by provincial regulations.
oronto conducts nearly 300,000 water quality
tests annually to measure 300 different quality
variables (legislation requires testing or only
72 variables). In key measures such as turbidity
(a measure o cloudiness), the City o oronto’s
water is ten times better than the provincially-
mandated standard.
not just its drinking water, but the water along
its waterront as well. One o the most v isible re-
sults o the city’s work in protecting its natural
water resources is that six oronto beaches have
earned the international Blue Flag distinction.
Te Foundation or Environmental Education
runs the Blue Flag program out o Denmark
and works toward sustainable development at
beaches and marinas around the world through
the application o strict criteria dealing with wa-
ter quality, environmental education, environ-
mental management, saety and other services.
a Qlt
ity ratings o “good” or better 93% o the time.
Te United Kingdom-based Climate Group has
ranked oronto as one o the top 10 low carbon
leaders among global cities. Over the last 30 to
40 years, as the environmental movement has
become increasingly prevalent both in oronto
and worldwide, the air quality in oronto has
improved dramatically. Sulphur dioxide con-
centrations, or example, have improved by 95%
since 1965; ozone levels have improved by 40%
since 1975 and suspended particles have been
reduced by 75% since 1965.
oronto, like all large cities, occasionally expe-
riences “smog” conditions but typically only on
a small number o days each year. Te ten-year
average or annual “smog advisory” days (days
when the Air Quality Index (AQI) is orecast-
ed to exceed 50, thus reaching into the “poor”
level) is 16.6, with those days typically spread
over the months o May, June, July, August and
September. In July 2008, downtown oronto
experienced only one day with an AQI read-
ing above 50 (53 on July 16th). Tese readings
indicate that oronto’s air quality is better than most o its peer cities
worldwide.
oronto’s commitment to environmentally riendly practices is evident in
high-profile projects including the 30-storey wind turbine at Exhibition
Place, the 47 downtown buildings (including oronto City Hall) cooled
by deep-lake water and the Metro oronto Convention Centre hosting
Canada’s first zero-waste convention in 2007.
o make oronto an even greener city, the city has set aggressive
targets or reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the oronto area - rom
1990 levels the goal is to achieve a 6% reduction in emissions by 2012 and
an 80% reduction by 2050. Te City o oronto has already reduced green-
house gas emissions in its own operations by 30% since 1990. All o these
initiatives all within the city’s “Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustain-
able Energy Action Plan” adopted by oronto City Council in July 2007.
Te 2015 Pan American Games will be planned and executed within the
standards o this plan.
Te plan currently allocates significant resources to restoring and protect-
ing the environment beore 2015. Initial unding plans call or $42 million to
be spent on energy conservation, $20 million on renewable energy and $22
million on retrofitting City o oronto acilities. Tese unding allocations
represent only a small portion o oronto’s overall environmental effort.
Additionally, each newly-constructed acility or the 2015 Pan American
Games will be LEED certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design – an internationally-recognized rating system applied in more than
30 countries). Te plan or the Games themselves – rom energy manage-
ment at the sport venues and Pan American Village, to waste management/
recycling at all venues, to incorporating an innovative program o carbon-
offsets – will be part o a “triple bottom line” evaluation which brings
together environmental, economic and social analyses to determine not just
the most cost-effective strategies, but the most responsible strategies.
ToronTo region miCro CLimaTes
Te region that surrounds oronto eatures a small number o micro
climates that will have little, i any, influence on the Pan American
Games plan.
Te Niagara Escarpment runs rom Niagara Falls (the Niagara River
tumbles over the escarpment) to obermory, Ontario, a distance o
725 km. Te escarpment is a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve and its
sharp altitude change creates a number o micro climates along its length,
most notably in the Niagara Peninsula where the escarpment’s protection
against prevailing winds helps moderate the climate, making it an ideal
zone or viticulture and wine-making.
Te three Great Lakes closest to Games venues – Lake Ontario near the
majority o the Games venues, along with Lake Erie and Lake Huron
– have a moderating effect on temperatures in all seasons. Tis means
that during the Games period in July 2015, it is unlikely that extreme heat
will be a concern.
are susceptible to extreme winter weather
or possibly spring flooding, the July Games
period (August or the Parapan American
Games) in oronto is one o the most accom-
modating times o year. Te most likely adverse
natural conditions at that time o year all relate
to the possibility o weather conditions such as
heat, humidity or thunderstorms.
the nearest ocean (approximately 650 km in
a straight line to the closest point on the
Atlantic Ocean), the city is at little risk rom
violent weather such as hurricanes. Te last
hurricane to reach oronto, or example, was
hurricane Hazel in 1954. Seismic activity o
any noticeable degree is exceedingly rare and
inconsequential when it does occur.
In the unlikely event o a major natural di-
saster, however, all three levels o government

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