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Cultural Policy - Arts - Broadcasting - Copyright - Digital Media Film and Video - Museums and Heritage - Publishing - Sound Recording |
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| 2000 |
Federal government responds to A Sense of Place, A Sense of Being, agreeing with most of its recommendations |
| 2001 |
Prime Minister and Minister of Canadian Heritage announce Tomorrow Starts Today, a $560 million program of cultural investments over three years |
| 2003 |
International Network on Cultural Policy (INCP) group of cultural ministers initiates discussions with UNESCO to launch the process of developing a Convention on cultural diversity |
| 2003 |
UNESCO 32nd General Conference calls for a preliminary report and draft Convention on cultural diversity by 2005 |
| 2004 |
Canada is elected Rapporteur for the intergovernmental process developing the preliminary draft Convention |
| 2004 |
Tomorrow Starts Today initiative extended for one more year (2005-06) |
| 2005 |
Tomorrow Starts Today initiative extended for four more years (2006-07 to 2009-10) |
| 2005 |
UNESCO 33rd General Conference adopts Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and Canada is the first country to accept it |
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| 2000 |
Canada Council hosts the World Summit on Arts and Culture, leading to the creation of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies (IFACCA) |
| 2001 |
Arts Presentation Canada Program established to strengthen the performing arts |
| 2001 |
Cultural Spaces Program established to support arts and heritage capital projects |
| 2001 |
Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program established to strengthen organizational effectiveness and build capacity of arts and heritage organizations |
| 2002 |
Cultural Capitals of Canada Program established to recognize and support arts and culture activities in Canadian municipalities |
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| 2002 |
Department of Canadian Heritage releases discussion paper Canadian Content for the 21st Centuryand invites submissions from film and television producers |
| 2003 |
CRTC publishes a regulatory framework to guide the transition to digital over-the-air television |
| 2003 |
Department of Canadian Heritage releases Canadian Content in the 21st Century in Film and Television Productions: A Matter of Cultural Identity (Macerola Report) addressing the requirements that must be satisfied for a film or television production to be considered Canadian content |
| 2003 |
Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage releases Our Cultural Sovereignty: The Second Century of Canadian Broadcasting (Lincoln Report) |
| 2003 |
Federal government responds to Our Cultural Sovereignty: The Second Century of Canadian Broadcasting, pledging to improve the synergy and complementarities among the many federal programs and agencies supporting the creation of Canadian program content |
| 2005 |
CRTC approves three subscription radio licences and establishes a licensing framework for satellite subscription radio services. |
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| 2001 |
A Framework for Copyright Reform is released, along with two consultation papers, Consultation Paper on the Application of the Copyright Act’s Compulsory Retransmission Licence to the Internet and Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues |
| 2003 |
Committee on Canadian Heritage begins its review of copyright issues and asks Ministers of Canadian Heritage and Industry to provide a bill implementing the 1996 WIPO Copyright and Performance and Phonogram treaties |
| 2004 |
Ministers provide an interim report to the Standing Committee addressing a number of issues, including the WIPO treaties, the private copying regime, photographic works, internet service providers liability, use of internet for educational purposes, technology-enhanced learning and inter-library loans |
| 2005 |
Minister of Canadian Heritage and Minister of Industry introduce bill to amend the Copyright Act to implement the 1996 WIPO treaties, clarify liability for internet service providers, facilitate the use of new technologies for educational purposes and address the treatment of photographic works (Bill dies on Order Paper when federal election is called) |
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| 2001 |
Industry Canada publishes the report of the National Broadband Task Force, The New National Dream: Networking the Nation for Broadband Access, recommending that all Canadian communities have broadband access by 2004 |
| 2002 |
Department of Canadian Heritage establishes the Canadian Culture Online Program which provides funding to produce Canadian new media and internet content, increase access and build new audiences for Canadian digital content |
| 2003 |
Canadian Heritage launches two web portals – Culture.ca, which features material on Canada’s cultural life, and Culturescope.ca, which features research on cultural policy and development |
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| 2000 |
Canadian feature film policy, From Script to Screen, is announced, creating a new Canada Feature Film Fund administered by Telefilm Canada |
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| 2001 |
Portrait Gallery of Canada announced |
| 2001 |
Virtual Museum of Canada launched |
| 2001 |
Cultural Spaces Program established to support arts and heritage capital projects |
| 2001 |
Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program established to strengthen organizational effectiveness and build capacity of arts and heritage organizations |
| 2003 |
Parks Canada is moved from the Canadian Heritage Portfolio to the Environment Portfolio |
| 2004 |
The Act to establish the Library and Archives Canada comes into force, repealing the National Archives Act and the National Library Act and merging the two agencies |
| 2005 |
New Canadian War Museum building opens |
| 2005 |
Department of Canadian Heritage consults with Canadians and the museum community toward the development of new directions for federal museum policy |
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| 2000 |
Canada Magazine Fund established, supporting content and business development of Canadian magazine industry |
| 2000 |
Income Tax Act amended to conform with WTO obligations on the tax deductibility of magazine advertising |
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| 2001 |
Canadian Sound Recording Policy From Creators to Audience is announced, establishing the
Canada Music Fund, a series of eight programs to support diversity, capacity, excellence and innovation in the sound recording industry |
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