Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Transport and Communications

Issue 32 - Twelfth and Thirteenth Reports of the Committee

MONDAY, May 31, 1999

The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications has the honour to present its

TWELFTH REPORT

Your committee, to which was referred Bill C-55, An Act respecting advertising services supplied by foreign periodical publishers, has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of Thursday, March 25, 1999, examined the said bill and now reports the same with the following amendments:

Page 1, Clause 2:

(a) replace line 28 with the following:

"ing in value more than half of the total value"

Page 2, Clause 2:

(b) replace lines 2 and 3 with the following:

"(f) a non-profit organization in which more than half of its members are persons"

(c) replace line 25 with the following:

"officer and more than half of whose direc-"

(d) replace line 33 with the following:

"indirectly, in the aggregate more than half"

(e) replace line 35 with the following:

"shares representing more than half of the "

(f) replace lines 40 and 41 with the following:

"ly, interests representing in value more than half of the total value of the assets."

Page 10: Add after line 40 the following:

"20.1 The Governor in Council may make regulations defining, for the purpose of section 21.1, the expressions "revenues generated by the supply of advertising services directed at the Canadian market" and "revenues generated by the total supply of advertising services"."

Page 11: Add after line 9 the following:

"21.1 This Act does not apply to a foreign publisher who supplies advertising services directed at the Canadian market by means of an issue of a periodical, if the revenues generated by the supply of advertising services directed at the Canadian market represent, in comparison to the revenues generated by the total supply of advertising services, by means of any of those issues

(a) during the period of 18 months beginning on the day on which this Act comes into force, not more than 12 per cent;

(b) during the period of 18 months immediately following the period referred to in paragraph (a), not more than 15 per cent; and

(c) after the period referred to in paragraph (b), not more than 18 per cent.

21.2 (1) This Act does not apply to a foreign publisher who, after the coming into force of this Act, makes an investment in periodical publishing that has been prescribed under paragraph 15(a) of the Investment Canada Act as a specific type of business activity related to Canada's cultural heritage or national identity and that has been reviewed under Part IV of that Act by the Minister responsible for it and for which that Minister is satisfied or is deemed to have been satisfied that the investment is likely to be of net benefit to Canada.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a foreign publisher referred to in that subsection who is subject to an order made under paragraph 40(2)(e) or (f) of the Investment Canada Act.

(3) This Act applies to a foreign publisher referred to in subsection (1), other than in relation to the foreign publisher's investment referred to in that subsection."

Respectfully submitted,

MONDAY, June 7, 1999

The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications has the honour to table its

THIRTEENTH REPORT

Your committee informs the Senate that, pursuant to an Order adopted by the Senate on March 23, 1999, it had deposited with the Clerk of the Senate on May 28, 1999, the Report of the Subcommittee on Communications entitled: "Wired to Win! Canada's Positioning Within The World's Technological Revolution"

Respectfully submitted,

MARIE-P. POULIN

Chair