Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for this invitation to discuss the report titled “Harnessing Change: The Future of Programming Distribution in Canada”. I'll skip the introductions, as the chair already went through them, but I'll just underscore that Sheehan is pronounced “Shawn”. We a

Information & Ethics committee  In our case, we don't regulate the fast pace of the social media platforms. We deal with broadcasters on that front. On our front, all I would add is that one tool we would need is administrative monetary penalties in the Broadcasting Act, to be able to enforce various matters qu

Information & Ethics committee  According to broadcasting policy, the Broadcasting Act requires that all broadcasting in Canada be of high standard. We take our guidance from that part of the policy. With respect to content, we essentially work in a co-regulatory regime. We enforce a variety of codes that have

Information & Ethics committee  We regulate through various means. Sometimes we license. Sometimes we do it through exemptions. Some of our smallest broadcasters would be through exemptions. They would be, for example, community broadcasters or indigenous broadcasters in rural and remote areas. You'd probably h

Information & Ethics committee  Well, one of the recommendations we've made with respect to the review of the Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act is essentially to recognize that all parties that benefit from operating in Canada live up to the social responsibilities.

Information & Ethics committee  As you are all aware, currently there is a planned review of the Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, the acts upon which we undertake our mandate. We've also been asked by government to formulate a report that would feed into those reviews precisely, and that's the r

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for this opportunity to participate in the committee's valuable examination of how to better protect the private data of Canadians. I will spare you the introductions, to save a bit of time. As the committee members know, the CRTC derives its mandate from

Canadian Heritage committee  I cannot know what arguments businesses will present to us. I have been working with regulations for 25 years, and businesses do indeed ask for regulatory concessions. Sometimes we agree to grant some, and sometimes we refuse.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't speak for the CRTC, nor can the chairperson speculate on what will happen. People will make their representations, and then we will see. The CRTC television policies aim to ensure that there will still be quotas, even though this may be less practical in future. Funds ar

Canadian Heritage committee  We've gone through a variety of policy looks. Campus and community radio wasn't the subject of the Let's Talk TV conversations. That's on a different side of our house. I believe the fund you're speaking of is a fund we created at the CRTC with respect to our own policies, which

Canadian Heritage committee  The Télé Inter-Rives representatives did not come to my office to tell me that the funds were insufficient. They came to tell us that they were very happy to have access to the fund in question. I think that what they meant when they spoke to you was that the public funds alloca

Canadian Heritage committee  CBC/Radio-Canada has it own licence requirements. I cannot tell you if each one of its choices respects its licence conditions. In the beginning of our chair's mandate, in 2013, we renewed CBC/Radio-Canada's licence, which is valid till 2018. We put in place certain minimum ser

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the statement was that there's a lot of money in the Canadian system. There are tax credits. There are funds, whether it's the CMF or whether it's the independent funds. There are obligations we put on broadcasters because they hold licences. There are other specialized e

Canadian Heritage committee  We have already a rather robust data collection practice, and we report significantly on the data we collect. I think they might have made those comments in respect of local news and local information, and I think we heard in part what they were concerned about. What we put in

Canadian Heritage committee  Best efforts are being made to quantify, but we've also put in place a number of qualifiers and have put in place and will be putting in place, as in our hearings this fall, conditional licences and obligations on each individual broadcaster to enforce those important matters goi