Insurance and Affiliation

SFC offers 3 types of affiliation and insurance for clubs and other shooting organizations in Canada. If you are interested in opening your own shooting range, then you are required by law be insured.

SFC Affilation Only

Affiliation offers clubs and organizations involved in shooting sports, that are already insured elsewhere, membership with the Shooting Federation of Canada. The SFC is the sole national body for shooting sports recognized by the IOC and IPC and affiliation includes benefits like newsletters, event advertising on the SFC website, and discounts for the RTS program and Coast to Coast championships participation.


  • Ideal for clubs and other organizations involved in shooting sports that are already insured. Gets you affiliation with the Shooting Federation of Canada, the national sport shooting governing body that administers the disciplines that are on the programme of the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee and the only recognized national sport organization for shooting sports in Canada. With Affiliation you receive our newsletters, can advertise your events on the SFC website and get discounts for the Recreational Target Shooting (RTS)program.

Affiliation and Directors & Officers (ADO)
Insurance

D&O coverage protects directors, officers, employees, members, and volunteers from claims of negligence or breach of duty under three agreements: personal insurance, which includes wrongful employment and membership practices coverage; fiduciary insurance for the administration of benefits programs; and coverage for derivative demands and crisis costs, including investigation and reputation management expenses.

  • D&O coverage is defined under 3 insuring agreements:

    1. Agreement A and B - Personal Insurance

    Protects Directors and Officers along with members of the various management committees, employees, members and volunteers from claims made against them alleging negligent acts, errors, omissions, misstatements, misleading statements, neglect or breach of duty committed in the discharge of their legal obligations in their capacity as insured persons. Insuring Agreement A will defend the insured persons directly in the event the organization is unable to provide indemnification while Insuring Agreement B will reimburse the Organization as it indemnifies its insured persons in a D&O lawsuit.

    Item 1 above also affords the following additional coverage:

    a. Wrongful employment practices coverage:

    Claims made in connection to allegations of wrongful dismissal, breach of an employment contract, employment related discrimination and harassment, failure to hire or promote, wrongful discipline or demotion, negligent evaluation, etc

    b. Wrongful membership practices coverage

    Claims made in connection to allegations of wrongful denial of admission or status as member, wrongful termination of status as a member, breach of a membership status contracts, misrepresentation, discrimination or harassment relating to membership status, libel or slander relating to capacity as a member, etc.

    2. Agreement D - Fiduciary Insurance

    Protects insured persons and Benefits Programs named on the policy (eg: employee benefits plans, Government-sponsored benefits plan) for claims made against them in connection to the administration of such benefits program or any allegations of negligent acts, errors, omissions, misstatements, misleading statements, neglect or breach of duty imposed by statute relative to the fiduciary duty of a benefits program

    3. Agreement E - Derivative demand and crisis costs coverage

    Provides investigation costs coverage to insured persons in the event of a derivative action claim against such insured persons, as well as reasonable and necessary crisis costs incurred by the entity in the event of a claim. Crisis costs include services provided by a public relations firm, crisis management firm or law firm to reduce damage to reputation suffered by the organization or the insured persons arising out of information publicly accessible by third parties via the media.

ADO and General Liability

The Commercial General Liability policy safeguards the Shooting Federation of Canada and its affiliates against third-party claims of injury or damage, covering activities like training and competitions. It includes premises liability, treats each entity separately for coverage, and excludes property insurance.


  • The Commercial General Liability policy protects against any third party legal loss or suit brought against you from a third party.

    Common losses are property damage and/or body injury to a third party.

    This policy includes the liability that arises the insured activities, notably training/teaching of parties for international competitions, recreational shooting, national and local competitions and education of firearms.

    Premises liability for insured clubs and shooting ranges is also included.

    The policy protects the Shooting Federation of Canada, all its individual members, its affiliated clubs, and all its members.

    The coverage includes the Cross Liability; each means that each member/club is considered to be an insured entity as if a separate policy had been issued separately.

    All coaches and guests are covered, while acting under the club's supervision or in a club's name. For coaches, this is regardless of their training. All club staff are covered, with no limitation.

    Note that this policy does not include property insurance (fires, break ins, etc), and the Shooting Federation of Canada does not offer property insurance.