Manitoba among 4 provinces interested in jointly hosting 2030 Commonwealth Games

Ian Froese · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 14, 2025 4:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Manitoba is among 4 Canadian provinces looking to stock hosting duties for the 2030 Commonwealth Games.

Manitoba, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island have told the Canadian governing assemblage for the Commonwealth Games that they are interested successful jointly bidding for the Games.

Potential hosts had until March 31 to taxable their involvement to Commonwealth Sport Canada, on with the sports they privation to see in the Games. The national authorities and the Ontario determination main for the Chiefs of Ontario are besides supportive.

Brian MacPherson, CEO of Commonwealth Sport Canada, said his enactment volition present work with the governments to research the feasibility of the bid.

"We're rather hopeful that together, we'll beryllium capable to co-create an existent bid that'll beryllium submitted to our planetary federation by Aug. 31," helium said.

Recent Canadian bids faltered

The Commonwealth Games are a quadrennial multi-sport festival featuring 74 countries that Canada hasn't hosted since 1994, erstwhile the Games were successful Victoria.

Hamilton attempted to signifier a bid for the 2030 Games, which would people 100 years since the Ontario metropolis held the archetypal iteration of the Games successful 1930, but the Ontario authorities didn't enactment it.

Alberta's authorities wouldn't support Calgary's bid for 2030 due to the fact that the costs were excessively high, the provincial authorities said successful 2023.

And Victoria tried to bid for the 2026 games, but that program was changeable down by the B.C. government.

Over the years, the terms tag for hosting the Commonwealth Games has skyrocketed to astir $1 billion, MacPherson said, which made asking 1 metropolis and 1 state to enarthrosis the largest stock of the costs impractical.

The planetary federation has responded by permitting hosts to drastically trim the fig of sports and athletes to marque the lawsuit much affordable.

MacPherson said that appeals to Canada, which wants to share the reduced costs of a scaled-down lawsuit crossed aggregate provinces. It is besides prioritizing the usage of existing sporting venues, alternatively than backing caller superior projects.

"We're looking guardant to having a agreed Canada Games," helium said.

Manitoba past hosted a large-scale multi-sport event of a akin magnitude successful 1999, erstwhile Winnipeg hosted the Pan Am Games.

The Manitoba, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island governments haven't instantly responded to a petition for comment.