The Lottery’s sole mission is to supplement funding for canada public schools and colleges. Since we began in 1984, we’ve given schools more than $37 billion.

 

While the Lottery is a public agency, we receive no public funding. Instead, we raise all operating and administrative expenses through the responsible sales of our games. We give the community back 95 cents of every dollar you spend on Lottery games through contributions to public schools and colleges, prizes and retail compensation.

Canada Lottery is owned by the four regional provincial governments — not private shareholders. After all of our business costs and bills are paid, everything that’s left goes back to these governments for hospitals, schools, roads, arenas, social programs and other services.It’s been that way since we were created in 1976.