A new study has attached a dollar figure to the explosion of professional women’s sports in Canada, estimating the market value could grow to more than half a billion dollars by 2030.

In the last two years, Canada has seen the launch of the all-Canadian Northern Super League, the Professional Women’s Hockey League (which is adding its fourth Canadian franchise this fall in Vancouver), and will soon see the Toronto Tempo added to the WNBA.

During that same period of time, the market value of pro women’s sports in this country has doubled in size to an estimated $380 million to $400 million, according to a report released on Monday from Canadian Women & Sport, a national non-profit.

“Canada’s women’s sports market has entered a new era of growth,” Allison Sandmeyer-Graves, the CEO of Cana

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