Updating Canada’s broadcasting policy framework: a process gone awry

The CRTC’s inability to respond with agility or openness to the possibilities of the internet age undermines the purposes of its consultative processes.

CRTC chairperson and CEO Vicky Eatrides. The CRTC’s decision to impose contributions on streaming services before addressing the definition of Canadian content reflects its capture by legacy broadcasters, write Len St-Aubin and Philip Palmer. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LEN ST-AUBIN, PHILIP PALMER

October 30, 2024

The delivery of audio and audiovisual content over the internet poses a host of issues for Canadian cultural policy, and directly threatens the traditional broadcasting industry’s business model. Yet, despite this fundamental shift in how content is created and consumed, C...

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