The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) is pleased to share some highlights from the second half of the fiscal year that have contributed to our vision of fair, safe, accessible, and inclusive sport. We continue to focus our efforts on four main priority areas consistent with our 2022-27 Strategic Plan: ensuring athletes are protected from the threat of doping through the implementation of the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP); developing rules and educational tools to mitigate the growing risk of competition manipulation associated with the legalization of single-event sport betting; promoting positive sport cultures as the network leader of True Sport; and examining ethical issues facing national level sport in Canada.
Each of these priority areas makes a unique contribution to ensuring integrity in our sport system. We’re always grateful for Sport Canada’s ongoing support of this mandate and their confidence in the CCES.
You may have seen the news that as of April 2025 the CCES will take on the administration of Canada’s safe sport program. Given the CCES’s existing broad mandate and its current operating structures and systems, it makes logical and economic sense to evolve and modernize the CCES so that it can effectively address safe sport along with doping and competition manipulation in Canada. This will be a huge undertaking for our organization and the change requires us to update our governance and operations to reflect this broadened mandate. Over the next few months, we’ll be looking for feedback from the Canadian sport community as we develop plans to undertake the administration of the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS), and we encourage you to participate in consultation opportunities as they arise.
We hope you’re enjoying our new Progress Report format as we aim to provide you with timely updates on progress against our objectives and milestones worth celebrating. If you ever have suggestions on how we can improve our work, or bring additional value to your initiatives, we’d be happy to hear from you.