Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Employment and Training
- Health
- Immigration
- Sports
Subject Matter Details
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- To ensure that Canada's high performance sport system is adequately resourced in comparison to its international peers and that Canadian Olympic and Paralympic athletes continue to earn medal and podium-level performances in international individual and team sport competitions. To advocate for ongoing funding of the Federal Own the Podium program and to ensure that Sport Canada is funded to the degree required to maintain our High Performance sport system on a par with our international peers.
- To ensure that community based sport and recreational facilities and assets continue to enjoy fair access to public investment and infrastructure dollars consistent with the objective of having a healthy and fit Canadian population and that these infrastructure investments, be distributed widely and fairly and in keeping with need, demand and population. We will advocate for the renewal of the Recreation Infrastructure Canada program to ensure that the physical infrastructure of Canadian recreational and sporting facilities is maintained and upgraded.
- We will make the case for the introduction of innovative new tax changes to benefit sport participation such as making community sport organizations eligible for charitable status and transforming the current tax credit for children and youth sport participation into a refundable credit so that more Canadian families benefit.
Policies or Program
- Improve the health, physical fitness and wellness of Canadian youth and children through increasing their access to school, community and club-based sport and recreational activities and programs. We will advocate for the creation of a Canadian Sport and Physical Activity Strategy (Policy).
- To improve the health outcomes, settlement, and societal integration of various target groups such as aboriginal and native peoples, new Canadians, at-risk youth and the long-term unemployed using publicly funded sport, physical activity and recreational programs as the vehicle to obtain these outcomes. We will advocate to ensure that sport and recreation programs are included as eligible categories in broader federal strategies to support target at-risk populations.
Communication Techniques
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Written communication
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Oral communication
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Grass-roots communication
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Social media
Government Institutions
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Canadian Heritage (PCH)
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Citizenship and Immigration Canada
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Finance Canada (FIN)
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Health Canada (HC)
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House of Commons
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Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
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Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
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Privy Council Office (PCO)
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Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
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Senate of Canada
In-house Organization Details
Description of the organization's activities
Sport Matters advocates for supportive public policy to assist the sport, amateur athletic, physical activity, community club sport and recreational activity sectors in Canada.
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration
CHRIS JONES,
Senior Leader
Organization's membership or classes of membership
The membership includes national sport organizations, provincial sport organizations, multi-sport organizations, athlete & coaches associations, sectoral associations in the physical and health education field, organizations devoted to ethics in sport and university sport organizations.
Government funding
No government funding was received during the last completed financial year.
In-house Organization Contact Information
Address:
1400-180 Elgin Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 5Z9
Canada
Telephone number:
613-231-7472
Ext.
222
Fax number:
613-231-3739
Lobbyists Details
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