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Drew Olsen

Associate Director General, Canadian Heritage (PCH)0 communications in the past year

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Blue Ant Media

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Policies with respect to production funding and tax credits Discuss whether consumer shows are within the gambit of the Ministry of Tourism's policies or programs. Broadcasting Policies related to Specialty Television Industry policies with respect to foreign ownership

Broadcasting policies and regulations related to the television industry, foreign ownership, production funding, media funding, and tax credits to support innovation for Canadian independent broadcaster-producers. Advocacy related to the Canada Periodical Fund.

Canadian Independent Screen Fund for BPOC Creators

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Examine opportunities for federal government investment into a fund for Black and racialized creators working in the screen-based industries Seek funding to support racial equity in the screen-based sector

Discussion of Changing Narratives Fund, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program, Pre-Budget Submission Modernization of Canada's broadcasting framework

News Media Canada

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Ensure retailer flyer printing and distribution in Canada remains competitive. At a time when the news publishing industry is facing soaring costs due to inflation, advertising competition from foreign Big Tech giants, and the theft of journalistic content by AI companies, ensure Canada Post offers community newspaper publishers the same rates and level of service they are offering to the dominant commercial printer in Canada. Ensure there is healthy competition in the flyer printing and distribution markets across Canada. Amend the definition of a Qualified Canadian Journalism organization (QCJO), requiring that an organization regularly employ two or more journalists to include: journalists who do not deal at arm’s length with the organization. This would generally include owners/partners who actively pursue, research, analyze, explain, edit, format, design, write or report the news, or select, plan, or assign work, in accordance with journalistic processes and principles. They would work, on average, a minimum of 26 hours per week and spend at least 75% of their time engaged in the production of original written news content, including researching, collecting information, verifying facts, photographing, writing, editing, designing and otherwise preparing content. To halt the theft of copyright protected news content, Public Services and Procurement Canada and Treasury Board should ensure those on the government’s list of interested artificial intelligence suppliers sign a "supplier commitment to support the Government of Canada’s effort in leading the way on ethical AI” that includes a commitment to the principles of transparency, consent, and attribution with respect to all copyright-protected source content. Ensure that the Online News Act continues and that funding is distributed in accordance with the Act and its Regulations. Ensure social media services covered by the Online News Act do not allow publisher content to be reproduced (screen shots, copied text, etc.) without providing compensation to news businesses. Protect intellectual property by preventing LLMs from scraping journalistic content. Ensure search engines cannot abuse their dominant position by de-indexing Canadian news sites if publishers block their AI bots from crawling our protected content without consent, credit, and compensation. Ensure any policy changes to the Aid to Publishers component of the Canadian Periodical Fund take into account the importance of the program, especially to smaller rural community newspapers. Align the Government of Canada advertising policy with the Government of Canada's "Buy Canadian Policy" by directing the Agency of Record to ensure a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Ensure Canada Post continues to perform its vital role deliver community newspapers to Canadians. Have Canada Post return to the long-standing policy of exempting community newspapers with commercial inserts (e.g., flyers from local hardware and grocery franchisees) from the Consumers’ Choice program. Community newspapers with commercial inserts are not ‘junk mail’. Ensure that the Copyright Act is not modified through an exception permitting Text and Data Mining (TDM) allowing AI companies to use Canadian news publishers' protected works to train generative AI systems without consent, credit, or compensation. For transparency and to facilitate verification of eligible news publishers under the Online News Act, make the list of Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations public. Keep advertising in dollars in Canada by closing the loophole in Section 19 of the Income Tax Act that allows for the deductibility of foreign internet advertising. Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%. Abuse of dominance and anti?competitive business practices related to online search, search advertising and display advertising services in Canada. Extending the Local Journali

Cable Public Affairs Channel

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Interim funding to support CPAC as a public interest broadcaster. Discuss the need to protect 9.1.1.h, from the Broadcasting Act, public interest broadcasters.

Compass Rose Group

Canadian Film Centre

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Creation of a new Canadian Audiovisual and Immersive Training Fund via contributions from C-11 Broadcasting Act reform. Accessing Funding from the Canadian Arts Training Fund to support training programs in the Film, Television and Music sectors.

PAA Advisory | Conseils

Digital First Canada

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Engages with policy makers on the regulation and implementation of regulation that may have an effect on Digital Creators including the Broadcasting Act and online regulation. Engages with Officials on legislation that may have an effect on Digital Creators in Canada, including broadcasting and internet regulation. Consults with Canadian Heritage on Programs that could financially benefit or harm Canada's digital Creators. Consults and provides the views of Canadian Digital Creators with policy makers and program leads.

ICI Télévision (CFHD-DT Montréal)

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Discuss amendments to the Broadcasting Act and the tax credit regime for Canadian programming.

National Screen Institute

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To propose the establishment of a dedicated fund that fosters creativity, innovation, growth, employment opportunities, and advances initiatives for truth and reconciliation within Canada’s cultural sector and the creative economy.