Order Issuing Directions to the CRTC (Sustainable and Equitable Broadcasting Regulatory Framework) — 12
Regulations and orders — section 11.1 of the Act 12 In exercising its powers under section 11.1 of the Act, the Commission is directed to (a) regularly review expenditure requirements to ensure that they are proportional to their objectives and that those objectives are clear; (b) recognize the diversity of services provided by broadcasting undertakings; (c) consider providing flexibility for all broadcasting undertakings in meeting expenditure requirements; (d) consider demographic data — including that concerning the participation in the Canadian broadcasting system of members of equity-seeking and ethnocultural groups, including Black or other racialized communities — collected from various sources, including broadcasting undertakings, industry organizations, production funds certified by the Commission and information published under the Employment Equity Act ; (e) where appropriate for a given business model and set of objectives, prioritize the imposition of requirements to make expenditures directly on the creation, production and presentation of Canadian programming; (f) ensure that expenditure requirements support the creation and availability of programming in French, in recognition of the minority context of French in Canada and North America and the specific challenges involved with creating and making available original French language programming; (g) ensure that expenditure requirements support the creation and availability of programming (i) by Indigenous creators and broadcasting undertakings, including programming distributed by Indigenous broadcasting undertakings and programming in Indigenous languages, taking into consideration the importance of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and the challenges and obstacles that they face, including those stemming from historical injustices or the legacies of colonialism, (ii) by creators who are members of equity-seeking and ethnocultural groups, including Black or other racialized communities, taking into consideration the challenges and obstacles that they face, including systemic racism and the obstacles faced by those whose first language is not an official language, and (iii) in both official languages, including programming by creators from official language minority communities, taking into consideration the challenges and obstacles faced by those creators; (h) consider the need for sustainable and predictable funding to support participation by persons, groups of persons or organizations representing the public interest in proceedings before the Commission under the Act; (i) support broadcasting undertakings that offer programming services that are of exceptional importance to the achievement of the broadcasting policy set out in subsection 3(1) of the Act; (j) consider the importance of sustainable support by the entire Canadian broadcasting system for news and current events programming, including a broad range of original local and regional news and community programming; and (k) support activities and services — including training and development activities, conferences, the activities of organizations that represent creators and the development of digital and open-source tools and solutions — that support and promote Canadian creators of audio or audio-visual programs for broadcasting by broadcasting undertakings, including social media creators.