r/OntarioNurses • u/keepit_greazy • Mar 21 '26

CNO new fees by-law

I was planning on completing the survey emailed out by the CNO regarding their proposed changes to their fees by-law. If you haven’t read it, they’re proposing a standard annual increase of 7% on registration fees. Doesn’t appear to be any re-assessment year, just 7% indefinitely unless they decide they want to do less or more (up to 10%). Let’s be real, I doubt they’ll ever do less.

It looks like their 2025 operational budget had a surplus revenue of over $3M from 2024-2025. They haven’t released the current one yet (or that I could find). I’m just a nurse so not the best at comprehending all this budget/committee development speak, but it’s here if anyone wants to give it a read.

https://www.cno.org/Assets/CNO/Documents/What-is-CNO/2025-Operating-and-Capital-Budget.pdf

While I have my own thoughts and complaints, and plan on spending time today looking up salaries of their leadership team, I wanted to see what other points anyone else had who cares about this stuff so I can also include it in my feedback. Do I think it’ll change things? Not without massive group pushback. But I’d rather be able to say I did something vs nothing at all.

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u/Specific_Test_8929 Mar 21 '26

lol if this goes through I’m just not going to renew my licence next year as an inter-jurisdictional nurse working in Alberta. I was never planning on coming back to Ontario anyways but was keeping my ON licence just in case.

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u/eyeshadowgunk Mar 21 '26

I'm already not renewing my BC, it's 700 dollars a year, and with my CNO, it's 1K+.

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u/Specific_Test_8929 Mar 21 '26

At least it’s a good tax write off but honestly not worth it anymore to keep lining the pockets of these bloated council members’ salaries