CRTC Will Begin Process of Defining ‘Canadian and Indigenous Content’ Under Revised Broadcasting Act Later This Year

The social media page of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on a cellphone in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Canada’s broadcast regulator will begin it’s process later this year of defining “Canadian and Indigenous content” under the new broadcasting-system regulations that will come into effect as a result of Bill C-11, Online Streaming Act, passing into law.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) wrote in its online “Regulatory Plan to modernize Canada’s broadcasting system” on May 30 that it plans to begin holding “preliminary engagement sessions” this fall with media industry stakeholders and creators that it says “will help design the approach for a full public consultation.”