LANG Committee Report
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RECOMMENDATION 1 The Committee recommends that the CRTC develop a concept of bilingual market, which would make it possible to provide better service to the anglophone and francophone audiences comprising a considerable portion of the local population. RECOMMENDATION 2 The Committee urges the CRTC to require direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service providers to carry the signals of the regional television stations of the CBC/SRC. RECOMMENDATION 3 The Committee recommends that the Government of Canada add the CRTC to the list of designated federal institutions in its accountability framework adopted in August 1994 in order to ensure the implementation of sections 41 and 42 of Part VII of the Official Languages Act. RECOMMENDATION 4 The Committee recommends that the Governor in Council by order direct the CRTC to make it mandatory for all broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs), without exception, to distribute to all their subscribers the video and audio signals of the debates of Parliament via CPAC in both official languages. RECOMMENDATION 5 The Committee recommends that the CPAC signal distributed as part of the basic cable service be protected from displacement by closed circuit video programming, and that the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations be amended in this regard if necessary. |