There certainly is a fluctuation ... government revenues fluctuate upwards, while grants to community groups fluctuate downwards!
On Wednesday December 7th, Peter Fassbender (Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development) released information about on-going, and up-coming, changes it was making to the Community Gaming Program. He stated: “ I want to thank the Office of the Auditor General for completing their thorough performance audit of our Community Gaming Grants program. I am pleased that the audit found government has a suitable framework in place to administer the program, and we recognize that improvements are needed in some key areas. “The report outlines 10 recommendations, including the development of a performance management framework, and to evaluate the approach used in assessing applications. Government accepts all 10 recommendations ." A brief summary, and history, of gaming and gambling in British Columbia reminds us that: up to 1969 public gambling / gaming was illegal in Canada then in the 1970s non-profit organizations were able to generate ...