More than 60 national sports organizations will share $60 million in additional federal funding as the government moves to shore up a national sport system that has been described as chronically underfunded.
At a news conference in Ottawa on Thursday, Secretary of State for Sport Adam van Koeverden said the money will help elite athletes compete on the world stage and advance safe sport measures.
“We’ve landed on a fantastic new era in Canadian sport. One of the reasons that I think we’re all here is because we believe that sport can connect people and communities in ways that very few other things can,” van Koeverden said, flanked by Liberal and opposition MPs and high-performance athletes….