Hockey Canada said the federal government restored funding to the organization after meeting three conditions.
Hockey Canada said on Sunday the Government of Canada restored its funding, effective immediately.
In a letter addressed to Hockey Canada board chair Hugh Fraser from Canadian sport minister Pascale St-Onge, she wrote the government's funding is not a blank cheque, according to TSN's Rick Westhead and the CBC.
"Hockey Canada also must tackle issues regarding safe sport, such as the toxic behaviors, the trivialization of sexual violence and the culture of silence, which has too often made the headlines," St-Onge wrote in that letter.
Hockey Canada made the announcement just hours before Canada's national women's team faces off against Team USA in the gold medal game of the women's World Championship in Brampton, Ont.
St-Onge also told reporters in Brampton on Sunday there will be many checks and balances to ensure Hockey Canada continues to meet the government's conditions.
In a statement on Sunday, Hockey Canada said it met three conditions outlined by St-Onge, which was becoming a full signatory to Abuse-Free Sport and the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner, continuing to review and implement Thomas Cromwell's recommendations from his independent governance review and committing to more frequent reporting to the federal government.
"While I would like to thank Minister St-Onge and the government for their vote of confidence and for their ongoing efforts to prioritize safe sport in Canada, I also wish to stress that we still have work to do to change the culture of our sport," Fraser said in the statement.
Canada's national hockey organization had its federal funding pulled in June 2022 once details emerged of its handling of an alleged sexual assault by members of the 2018 World Junior Championship team in London, Ont. After an unnamed woman sought damages from Hockey Canada, the CHL and unnamed players, Hockey Canada settled the lawsuit quietly in May 2022.
The allegations have not been proven in court.
Since then, Hockey Canada's board of directors stepped down, and nine new members were elected to serve a one-year term in December, including Fraser.
Hockey Canada's recent statement said the new board met with St-Onge in March and said, "(W)hile significant progress has been made...it recognizes and appreciates that there is more work to be done."