Skateboarding Is a Fitness Activity

Starting with the 2007 tax year, the Government of Canada allows a non-refundable tax credit based on eligible fitness expenses paid by parents to register a child in a prescribed program of physical activity.

Prescribed programs of physical activity
An eligible fitness expense must be for the cost of registration or membership of an eligible child in a prescribed program of physical activity. Generally, such a program must:

be ongoing (either a minimum of eight consecutive weeks long or, for children's camps, five consecutive days long);
be supervised;
be suitable for children; and
include a significant amount of physical activity that contributes to cardio-respiratory endurance, plus one or more of: muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, or balance.
Under the Income Tax Regulations, the definition of physical activity includes:

horseback riding; and
if the child is eligible for the disability tax credit, activities that result in movement and in an observable use of energy in a recreational context.
An activity for which a child rides on, or in, a motorized vehicle as an essential part of the activity does not qualify for the children’s fitness tax credit.

DISCRIMINATION!
Skateboarders are continually being discriminiated against and many people stereotype these kids, youths and adult skateboarders as "bad" people. Now the government follows suit and does not find skateboarding a physically activity? Skateboarding is one of the most physical activities out there today! And it is costly!