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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Transport and Communications

Issue No. 38 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Wednesday, June 20, 2018:

"Ordered, That the Senate adopt the following:

1. Order No. 91 under Other Business — Reports of Committees — Other;

2. Motion No. 359 standing in the name of the Honourable Senator Greene on the Notice Paper;

3. Motion No. 360 standing in the name of the Honourable Senator Mercer on the Notice Paper;

4. Motion No. 361 standing in the name of the Honourable Senator Tkachuk on the Notice Paper; and

5. Motion No. 366 standing in the name of the Honourable Senator Mockler on the Notice Paper."

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Richard Denis
Interim Clerk of the Senate

(Motion No. 361:

By the Honourable Senator Tkachuk:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications be authorized to examine and report on how the three federal communications statutes (the Telecommunications Act, the Broadcasting Act, and the Radiocommunication Act) can be modernized to account for the evolution of the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors in the last decades. Some of the main issues the study would examine will include:

(a) how the three statutes may promote the creation, production and distribution of competitive, quality Canadian content in both French and English;

(b) the realities and challenges of Canadian consumers, businesses, broadcasters, artists and artisans;

(c) blurring of the distinction between broadcasting and telecommunications;

(d) fragmentation of services;

(e) corporate consolidation and concentration;

(f) Canadian content;

(g) CBC/Radio-Canada;

(h) foreign ownership constraints;

(i) low participation and Information and Communications Technology Development Index score;

(j) lack of a national broadband strategy;

(k) net neutrality; and

(l) statutory authority and the role of the CRTC; and

That the committee report to the Senate no later than June 28, 2019, and that it retain all powers necessary to publicize its findings until 180 days after the tabling of the final report.)

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