Ministers responsible for sport, physical activity and recreation collaborate to make a safe, inclusive sport environment and to support physical activity

February 21, 2023

CHARLLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. – The federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) ministers of sport, physical activity and recreation concluded a two-day conference focused on advancing governments’ collective priorities for sport in Canada. Ministers reconfirmed their commitment to work together to address the current challenges within sport systems in Canada. Community-building is at the heart of the ministers’ work. The ministers emphasized their mutual priorities that sport and physical activity must be safe, inclusive, welcoming, accessible, healthy, and fair.

All governments — provincial, territorial and federal — will work together to have every athlete and participant in Canada protected by an independent mechanism, targeting to achieve this by the end of 2023.

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AthletesCAN’s staff, operations, work, and network depend on traditional Indigenous territories to provide us physical space, sustenance, safety, and community to work, live, and play. We respectfully acknowledge that our members hail from across the country representing the many traditional, treaty, and unceded territories of all the Inuit, Métis, and First Nations people of Turtle Island.

We acknowledge that our ability to live and work on these lands is a direct benefit of policies of expulsion and assimilation of Indigenous peoples during the time of settlement and Confederation, and since. The harms of these policies are many and are still being felt in Indigenous communities today. We express gratitude towards the Indigenous peoples who have and will continue to steward these lands. We affirm our commitment to enacting the 94 Calls to Action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, especially the Calls to Action which directly relate to Sport, No. 87-94.