Funding

[intoronto 6,467]

Compared to this: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/sport-organizations/national/funding.html

 

HEAVY (from my calculations some got 70-80%) cuts to funding for National federations. I was told most were "10 % cuts or less"

 

This is really sad and unfortunate, but lets send billions overseas. Ridiculous. 

Edited July 23 by intoronto

[intoronto 6,467]

Future of Sport Commission released its report today, among its recommendations is immediately increasing funding to the sport sector (NSO's). and providing incentives to merge NSO's with similar mandates (such as merging all aquatics under one banner).

 

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/future-sport/participate/interim-report.html

 

Pretty lengthy but if you have some time its a must read.

[intoronto 6,467]

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/sports-no-funding-federal-budget-2025-canada-olympians-carney-shoemaker-9.6966806

No new funding for NSO's  

[intoronto 6,467]

Canadian sports funding is at a crisis. We need to be writing into our politicians because it will only get worse. This is a comparison of winter sports between 2022/2023 and 2024-2025 (ending March 2025) and we know things have gotten worse. Only Speed Skating had an increase in funding, but their CEO on Linkedin recently posted they got a drastic cut and are struggling. The good news is direct funding for athletes has gone up. Summer sports will come later.

 

 

 

 

 

[intoronto 6,467]

And Summer sports, similar story and heavier cuts...

 

[JockCartier 251]

While troubling, I think presenting 2022-23 as the only comparison other is cherry picking to some extent. as it spiked culminating that year. 

 

For comparison, I attached the levels going back to 2020-21, and no they weren't just lower during the pandemic, the SSP funding in 2018-2019 was $157M

 

Sorry, just the accountant in me always like context and lots of comparables

 

 

 

 

[intoronto 6,467]

The 2022-2023 was the last table before the update to show 2024-2025.

[JockCartier 251]

That may be, I don't know where you got the numbers from... but I have a spreadsheet compiled that has the numbers for the intervening years, so that info is available

 

Like I said, I'd hesitate to call it a crisis, when it's really more a regression to the mean and 22/23 was an outlier

[intoronto 6,467]

35 minutes ago, JockCartier said:

That may be, I don't know where you got the numbers from... but I have a spreadsheet compiled that has the numbers for the intervening years, so that info is available

 

Like I said, I'd hesitate to call it a crisis, when it's really more a regression to the mean and 22/23 was an outlier

It is a crisis, when all sports received major cuts for the 2025-2026 fiscal from the cuts already made for 2024-2025. THe numbers for the former are still not public.

The information I pulled is from the Sport Canada website.

[JockCartier 251]

You do you. Suffice to say I disagree and have stated why.