Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Transport and Communications
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18
Chair: The Honourable DAVID TKACHUK
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Issue No. 41
Seventh and eighth meetings:
Examine how the three federal communications statutes (the Telecommunications Act, the Broadcasting Act, and the Radiocommunication Act) can be modernized to account for the evolution of the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors in the last decades
WITNESSES
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Canadian Communication Systems Alliance:
Jay Thomson, Chief Executive Officer.
National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada:
Thomas S. Saras, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Movie Theatre Association of Canada:
Michael Paris.
Forum for Research and Policy in Communications:
Monica Auer, Executive Director.
Alliance des producteurs francophones du Canada:
Carol Ann Pilon, Executive Director;
Michel Houle, Consultant, Cultural Industries and Communications.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable David Tkachuk, Chair
The Honourable Dennis Dawson, Deputy Chair
The Honourable Julie Miville-Dechêne, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Boisvenu, Cormier, *Day (or Mercer), Forest-Niesing, Galvez, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), MacDonald, Manning, Mercer, Plett, *Smith (or Martin), Wetston, *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Change in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Forest-Niesing replaced the Honourable Senator Gagné (October 24, 2018).