Cultural Policy - Arts - Broadcasting - Copyright - Digital Media
Film and Video - Museums and Heritage - Publishing - Sound Recording |
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| 1990 |
Business Development Bank of Canada establishes the Cultural Industries Development Fund to support entrepreneurs in book and magazine publishing, sound recording, film and video production, and multimedia |
| 1991 |
Task Force on Professional Training for the Cultural Sector in Canada (White-Rossignol) releases its report, Art is never a given |
| 1991 |
Legislation establishing a Department of Multiculturalism and Citizenship passes |
| 1992 |
National Sectoral Council for Culture (later renamed the Cultural Human Resources Council) established |
| 1992 |
Standing Committee on Communications and Culture releases its report The Ties That Bind recommending a 5% increase in funding for the arts and stable funding for the Canada Council and the CBC |
| 1993 |
Department of Communications and Department of Multiculturalism and Citizenship disbanded and responsibilities transferred to newly-created Department of Canadian Heritage (along with responsibility for national parks, amateur sport, official languages, off-reserve Aboriginal programs and citizen participation) |
| 1994 |
Canada joins the World Trade Organization and ratifies the Uruguay Round of negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which exempts cultural services (but not goods) and film and television co-production treaties |
| 1994 |
Special Joint Committee on Reviewing Canadian Foreign Policy recommends that culture become a fundamental component of foreign policy |
| 1995 |
Federal government defines culture as the "third pillar" of foreign policy |
| 1995 |
Federal government Program Review results in deep cuts to the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Portfolio agencies |
| 1996 |
Multiculturalism Program renewed and Canadian Race Relations Foundation created |
| 1996 |
Mandate Review Committee (Juneau) releases its report Making Our Voices Heard recommending changes in the mandates and financing of the CBC, Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board |
| 1998 |
International Network on Cultural Policy, consisting of culture ministers from various countries, established by Canada |
| 1999 |
Cultural Industries Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade (SAGIT) releases New Strategies for Culture and Trade: Canadian Culture in a Global World, setting out options for cultural trade policy – either taking culture “off the table” at trade negotiations or negotiating a new international instrument to address cultural diversity |
| 1999 |
Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage releases A Sense of Place, A Sense of Being (Lincoln Report) outlining demographic and technological challenges and reaffirming the importance of the federal role in support of culture |
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| 1991 |
Changes to the Income Tax Act allow national arts services organizations to receive charitable donations |
| 1992 |
Status of the Artist Act passes, recognizing artists' rights to freedom of expression and association and establishing the Canadian Council on the Status of the Artist and the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal |
| 1992 |
Recommendations of the Advisory Committee to the Canada Council for Racial Equality in the Arts (Kelly report) submitted to the Canada Council |
| 1997 |
National Arts Training Contribution Program established to provide stable funding for national cultural training organizations |
| 1998 |
Canada Council’s parliamentary appropriation increased by $25 million annually for the next five years |
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| 1990 |
CBC closes eleven of its regional stations due to budget cuts |
| 1991 |
Broadcasting Act, 1991 passed, implementing recommendations from Caplan-Sauvageau Task Force regulating Canadian content on cable, broadening the CBC ’s mandate and giving the federal Cabinet a greater role in CRTC decision making |
| 1991 |
CRTC licenses Television Northern Canada |
| 1995 |
President of the CBC resigns over Program Review budget cuts of $300 million over three years |
| 1995 |
CRTC issues the first two licences for direct to home satellite broadcasting service |
| 1996 |
CRTC licenses 23 new Canadian specialty and pay TV channels |
| 1996 |
Canada Television and Cable Production Fund (CTCPF) established to finance Canadian television programs |
| 1998 |
Canadian Television Fund established as independent, non-profit corporation (replacing the CTCPF) |
| 1999 |
CRTC licenses the Aboriginal Peoples Network |
| 1999 |
CRTC releases Building on Success – A Policy Framework for Canadian Television, focusing on increasing the broadcasting of Canadian programming during peak viewing times |
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| 1993 |
Copyright Act is amended to define transmitter obligations (including cable and telecommunications firms) |
| 1994 |
Copyright Act is amended to bring it in line with North American Free Trade Treaty (NAFTA) provisions requiring a rental right for sound recordings and computer programs and increased protection against importation of pirated works |
| 1996 |
Under the provisions of the World Trade Organization agreement, copyright protection is provided against bootlegged audio recordings and unauthorized live transmission of performances |
| 1997 |
Copyright Act is amended to protect private copying, impose a levy on blank audio media and extend rights to producers and performers of sound recordings |
| 1997 |
Canada signs the World Intellectual Property Organization treaties on copyright in the new communications environment |
| 1998 |
Canada amends Copyright Act to comply with the 1961 Rome Convention (International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations) and the 1971 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works |
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| 1992 |
Department of Communications publishes New Media, New Choices outlining its strategy for developing an information policy consistent with Canadian economic, social and cultural values |
| 1997 |
Information Highway Advisory Council releases its final report Preparing Canada for a Digital World, recommending that a production tax credit and a fund be established to support multimedia production industry |
| 1998 |
Multimedia Fund established at Telefilm Canada to support the production, distribution and marketing of Canadian multimedia products (renamed the Canada New Media Fund in 2001) |
| 1999 |
CRTC releases Report on New Media, stating that the CRTC will not attempt to regulate the Internet |
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| 1991 |
Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund established with funding from Telefilm and the NFB to replace funding for non-theatrical film and video production that had fallen victim to budget cuts |
| 1994 |
Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit implemented, replacing the Capital Cost Allowance and providing a refundable tax credit of up to 12% on Canadian productions |
| 1998 |
Polygram Filmed Entertainment challenges Canada's 1998 foreign investment guidelines for film distribution in the WTO |
| 1998 |
Minister of Canadian Heritage initiates A Review of Canadian Feature Film Policy |
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| 1990 |
Minister of Communications releases new Canadian Museum Policy announcing increased funding for the Museum Assistance Program and structural changes to the national museums |
| 1990 |
Museums Act passes making the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian Museum of Nature, and the National Museum of Science and Technology (and their affiliates) separate, independent Crown corporations |
| 1991 |
Task Force on Military History and Museum Collections in Canada (Southam-Vaugeois) releases its report |
| 1992 |
Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (Hill-Nicks) issues its report, Turning the Page: Forging New Partnerships Between Museums and First Peoples |
| 1992 |
Opening of Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography |
| 1995 |
National Library Act amended to make legal deposit more efficient |
| 1999 |
Canada Travelling Exhibitions Indemnification Program established, allowing the federal government to assume financial responsibility for loss or damage of objects in eligible travelling exhibitions |
| 1999 |
Parks Canada ceases to be part of the Department of Canadian Heritage and becomes a special service agency within the Canadian Heritage Portfolio |
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| 1993 |
Publications Distribution Assistance Program established to help offset cuts to Postal Subsidy |
| 1994 |
Task Force on the Canadian Magazine Industry releases its report, A Question of Balance, recommending a tax on split run periodicals such as Sports Illustrated and the preservation of the Postal Subsidy |
| 1995 |
Excise Tax Act amended, imposing an 80% tax on advertising in split-run periodicals |
| 1997 |
Publications Assistance Program established, replacing Postal Subsidy by providing distribution assistance for eligible Canadian publications |
| 1997 |
United States challenges Canada’s use of the Excise Tax Act against split-run periodicals in the World Trade Organization (WTO)– Canada appeals |
| 1997 |
WTO rules against Canada’s appeal as inconsistent with GATT rules and overturns previous decision allowing the use of Postal Subsidy for periodicals |
| 1998 |
Loan Program for Book Publishers established (but closed in 2002) |
| 1999 |
Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act passes in response to the WTO magazine decision, limiting amount of Canadian advertising allowed in split-run periodicals |
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| 1996 |
Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Music Industry releases its report |
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