translate English to French: Given the importance of television as a cultural medium, in 1996, the Department of Canadian Heritage and Telefilm Canada partnered with private industry to create the Canadian Television Fund to maintain and increase the amount of high quality, distinctively Canadian programming for Canadian audiences.
Il comporte des rPgles sur la propriété, le contenu canadien, les priorités en matiPre de programmation, la couverture journalistique locale et régionale, les restrictions publicitaires, les questions sociales et la diversité culturelle.