Share your thoughts about Indigenous programming in Canada
Current status: Open
- Start date: March 22, 2024
- End date: July 22, 2024
In collaboration with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, we are seeking your views on how we can co-develop an Indigenous broadcasting policy that meets the needs and interests of Indigenous audiences, broadcasters, and content creators.
How to participate
There are a few ways you can participate. Please note that we will make all comments public. The deadline to participate is July 22, 2024 at 8 p.m. (EDT). Following the consultation, we will further collaborate with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples to co-develop the policy.
You can also host a community-led engagement session, summarize comments, and submit them to us by using one of the ways outlined below. Submissions can be made in the following Indigenous languages: Plains Cree (paskwâwinîmowin); South Baffin Inuktitut (Qikiqtaaluk nigiani); Ojibway (Anishinaabemowin); Denesuline (Dëne Sųłıné); Montagnais (Innu-Aimun); Mikmaq (Mi'kmawi'simk); Michif.
Information sessions
To better understand how to participate in a CRTC proceeding, register for an information session.
Submit a formal comment online
Use the intervention form.
You will have to agree to our privacy statement first.
Participate by mail
Send a letter with your ideas and input to the following address:
Secretary GeneralCRTC
Ottawa ON K1A 0N2
Send us a fax
Send a fax to 819-994-0218 with your comments.
Share your views online
Answer some or all the questions through CRTC Conversations.
The questions will be available in English, French, and multiple Indigenous languages.
This platform will accept comments in a variety of ways, including visual, audio-visual, and audio submissions.
If you need help submitting comments or hosting a community-led engagement session, contact the Indigenous Broadcasting Policy Team.
Who is the focus of this consultation
- Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis persons living in Indigenous communities, in urban or rural areas including remote and Northern communities)
- Industry (Indigenous and non-Indigenous broadcasters and content creators – audio and audiovisual)
- Indigenous organizations and governments
- Indigenous media, broadcasting organizations, and universities
- Commercial and public broadcasters
- All Canadians
Key topics for discussion
We are encouraging Indigenous peoples and all Canadians to help define the needs and interests of the Indigenous broadcasting policy.
We invite you to provide your comments on many topics, for example:
- what challenges exist that make it difficult to access and discover Indigenous programming;
- how radio stations, television services, and online streamers can best meet the needs and interests of Indigenous peoples;
- how the availability and diversity of Indigenous programming (music, spoken word, television, film, and online content) offered in Indigenous languages can meet the needs and interests of Indigenous peoples; and
- what initiatives broadcasters can implement to help preserve Indigenous languages.
See the Notice of Consultation for more details.
A summary of the Notice of Consultation with key information is also available in the following languages:
What we have learnt so far
This consultation represents the second phase of a three-phase process.
The first phase consisted of engagement sessions to identify the needs of Indigenous peoples within the broadcasting system in Canada. Find out what Indigenous broadcasters and content creators had to say during Phase 1:
The executive summary is available in the following Indigenous languages:
The engagement sessions helped establish the second phase, the public consultation. You can learn more about the feedback we are receiving in Phase 2:
- Interventions (comments we received online, by mail and by fax)
- CRTC Conversations (comments)
Related information
- Co-development of the Indigenous Broadcasting Policy
- Indigenous Broadcasting Policies (TV and radio)
- Resources for Indigenous broadcasters
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