Sport in Canada is underfunded, but we don’t need a Crown corporation to manage it

Instead of creating a Crown corporation, the minister of sport should work with national sport organizations to secure a massive funding increase to support better coaching oversight. That is how perverted coaches and abusive practices should be eliminated, not by the creation of another bureaucracy.

Secretary of State for Sport Adam van Koeverden, a former sprint kayaker and Olympic gold medallist, said in a statement that he welcomed the commission's report, accepted the findings, and will look at how to 'strengthen safe sport and improve the sport system at all levels in Canada.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

March 30, 2026

OTTAWA—Two years and $10-million later, a federal commission has deemed that sport in Canada is underfunded and in need of a Crown corporation to manage it.

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