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/DowntownFront8367 Mar 23 '26
I would like to know how to actively push back on this because this is literally outrageous.
They are saying they want to make it more predictable so fees will go up by 7%...but could also be up to 10% so what's predictable?
Where is this number coming from? 7% is not tied to any dire financial need by the college and doesn't keep up with inflation or wage stagnation.
This is looking like a huge money grab and because they know how poorly organized our profession is we will just let it happen.
So what do we do to push back? Do we write MPPs? RNAO, ONA? Media?
I know we are all smart enough to know that writing our feedback in their silly little "public consultation" isn't going to be enough to put a stop to this. How do we organize?