marc—andre fabien, who heads canada's paralympic committee, explains the decision. the canadian paralympic medalists $15,000 for gold and 10,000 for silver and 5,000 for bronze. and for the first time, here in paris, that canada will reward its paralympian medalists, and i must say in the last few years, it was highly controversial in canada to see the 0lympians on one hand receiving rewards and not the paralympians. but the reason why such situations is of course financial. the canadian olympic committee is wealthier than we are in the canadian paralympic committees. what was important was to be able to have a fund and make it sustainable in order to give these rewards, paralympics after paralympics, and now because of private donors and the input of the canadian government, we've been able to have a sufficient fund for a sustainable programme for reward to our paralympian medals. this is a significant change and are there other countries doing the same? i cannot answer you for other countries but paralympians are extremely happy, but will tell you it's not only ab

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