Bill C-319

SUMMARY

This enactment requires the Minister of Health and the Minister of State (Sport) to convene a conference with the provincial and territorial ministers responsible for health and sport and with representatives of the athletic and medical communities for the purpose of developing a national strategy to reduce the incidence of serious injury in amateur sport. It also authorizes the Minister of Finance to establish guidelines in respect of the allocation of funding to provincial and territorial governments that have enacted legislation to implement that strategy.