Close the Loophole!

In 1999, however, the CRTC provided a definition of broadcasting transmitted over the Of note, this definition of “broadcasting” in the internet in its New Media Exemption Order.[17] Since the Interpretation Act has not changed since the current CRTC is the body charged with interpreting the meaning version was enacted in 1985. [...] Citing the definition of broadcasting in the Interpretation Act, CRA noted that: 12 Friends of Canadian Broadcasting 13 The Deductibility of Foreign Internet Advertising Definition of “Broadcasting” THE LACK OF A SPECIFIC DEFINITION OF “BROADCASTING” The Commission notes that the definition of in the ITA is not itself particularly notable, given that there “broadcasting” includes the transmission [...] Accordingly, “broadcasting” relied on by CRA, that in the Interpretation the mere fact that a program is delivered by means Act (1985) mirrors the language of the Broadcasting Act of the internet, rather than by means of the airwaves (1968), rather than the modern, technologically neutral or by a cable company does not exclude it from the language of the Broadcasting Act (1991).[20] definition of [...] Only the Interpretation Act stands in the way.[23] Three years after the 1996 comments cited above, the CRTC dealt with the question of broadcasting over the internet, and issued a decision in Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 1999-84 (or DMEO—text of the relevant section in Appendix D) in which the Commission determined that broadcasting over the internet was indeed broadcasting, since the internet [...] Definitions that Rely on the However, if one uses the narrow definition of the Broadcasting Act Interpretation Act to determine the exclusions, the force of this Act would include a number of matters that These are Acts of Parliament which are materially are actually within the purview of the Department of concerned with broadcasting, and in some of these, Canadian Heritage.