Question Period Note: Professional Sport

The Government of Canada is not involved in professional sport.

• The Government of Canada is always pleased to see its citizens enjoying the benefits of sport.
• Sport brings people and communities together; it has the power to act on our health and well-being, our social networks and our sense of social connection and builds us up.
• The government focusses the use of public funds on the development of policies and programs aimed to support the growth and promotion of amateur sport.

• The objects of the Physical Activity and Sport Act are to encourage, promote and develop physical activity and sport in Canada.
• The Fitness and Amateur Sport Regulation has been made under the Act, which stipulates the following definition: amateur sport means any athletic activity when engaged in solely for recreation, fitness or pleasure and not as a means of livelihood.
• To this end, Sport Canada works collaboratively with its provincial and territorial partners in the development of safe sport, coaching development, policy development, event bidding and hosting, encouraging the participation of equity deserving groups and the hosting of the Canada Games.

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