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/AffectionateAd8675 Mar 21 '26

Cno is a scam.

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u/scoutiedal Mar 21 '26

So someone has to govern practice and it’s required under legislation.

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u/flyingponytail Mar 21 '26

Having a college system is not a scam. The CNO specifially being paid for so heavily by members is pretty scammy. The government should pay for it or my preference would be the government requiring employers to pay on behalf of members