Canada's Budget 2026 Creates Build Communities Strong Fund: C$1.5 Billion Over Nine Years for Ice Rinks and Community Recreation Facilities
The Government of Canada used a series of Budget 2026 briefings across the country on November 14 to highlight the new Build Communities Strong Fund, which will invest C$1.5 billion over nine years to build, expand, renovate and repair community recreation facilities and ice rinks nationwide, with C$750 million dedicated to ice rinks and another C$750 million for other community recreation facilities.
Secretary of State McLean highlighted the investments in community recreation facilities and ice rinks, while Secretary of State van Koeverden and Minister Robertson, Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, announced the budget's investments in community ice rinks and centres. Parliamentary Secretary Ryan Turnbull and other officials also presented the budget's recreation and rink investments in their regions. The government grouped the day's announcements under the Budget 2026 theme "Masters of our destiny."
According to the government's briefings, the budget aims to balance the operating budget one year early, in 2027-28, with the community rink and recreation investments forming part of its local community measures.
Source: Government of Canada
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Photo: 图：加拿大安大略省奥克维尔 Sixteen Mile 体育中心内的社区冰场。Jfvoll 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A community ice rink inside the Sixteen Mile Sports Complex in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Photo by Jfvoll, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
