Recommendations for a New Consultation Process and Policy for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Broadcasting - Final Report ...

• Main Authors: Albinati, Chris, Bonin-Labelle, Geneviève, Buddle, Kathleen, Gagnon, John, King, Gretchen, Szwarc, Julia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: My University 2019
• Subjects: First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-23260; https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/39010

This report reflects the discussions and presentations that took place at the Future of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Broadcasting: Conversation and Convergence gatherings from February to June, 2017. The gatherings aimed to bring practitioners, policy makers and academics together as allies to prepare a context for respectful and meaningful consultation. The idea was to create or identify the terms of reference for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) review the Native Broadcasting Policy1 (CRTC 1990-89), which according to its Three-Year Plan 2017-2020 was set to occur in 2018. The goal was to encourage deliberations before the CRTC initiated any procedure to ensure that any policy changes would support the development goals identified by Indigenous media activists, broadcasters, and community members. These gatherings aimed to share decision making power with the people, and to assert Indigenous rights to media democracy 'for as long as the waters flow,’ as well as to ...