Agenda (Revised 25 September 2025)

Hearing

The Path Forward – Supporting Canadian and Indigenous audio content

18 September 2025 at 9:00 a.m.

Conference Centre (Government issued photo ID required to access the Centre)
Portage IV
140 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Quebec
Hearing Room: Outaouais
Temporary phone number: 819-997-4657

Panel members (subject to change)
Nathalie Théberge, Hearing Chairperson
Bram Abramson, Commissioner, Ontario
Joanne Levy, Commissioner, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Ellen Desmond, Commissioner, Atlantic Region and Nunavut
Nirmala Naidoo, Commissioner, Alberta and the Northwest Territories

For media inquiries please contact media@crtc.gc.ca.

An audio and video feed of the hearing will be made available from the Commission’s website (www.crtc.gc.ca) for the duration of the hearing.

Reference Documents: Broadcasting Notices of Consultation CRTC 2025-52, 2025-52-1, 2025-52-2, 2025-52-3 and 2025-52-4.

Public Files

During the hearing, public files related to items scheduled at the hearing may be examined in the temporary examination room.

Transcripts of hearing

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Examination of transcripts

Transcripts of this hearing are available through our Internet site (http://www.crtc.gc.ca) and by contacting the public examination room of any CRTC office.

Recording of the Hearing

Recording of this hearing may be listened to, at the Commission Headquarters in Gatineau, Quebec, by appointment.

Should you have further comments, please forward them as follows:

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Thursday, 18 September 2025

Appearing individually

1. Stingray Group Inc. (int. #82)
2. Sirius XM Canada Inc. (int. #87)
3. Music Canada (int. #69)
4. Unifor (int. #65)
5. Community Radio Fund of Canada (int. #50)
6. Makusham Musique (int. #25)
7. Laboratoire de recherche sur la découvrabilité et les transformations des industries culturelles à l’ère du commerce électronique, sis à L’université du Québec à Montréal (LATICCE-UQAM) (int. #36)
8. CJ Radio (int. #18)
9. Amazon (int. #77 )
10. Nettwerk Music Group Inc. (int. #102)

Friday, 19 September 2025

Appearing individually

11. Alliance nationale de l'industrie musicale (int. #44)
12. CBC/Radio-Canada (int. #66)
13. Shaw Rocket Fund (int. #98)
14. Cogeco Inc., for and on behalf of its subsidiary Cogeco Media Inc. (int. #105)

Panel of Interveners

15. National Campus and Community Radio Association (int. #71)
16. Ontario Library Association (int. #99)
17. Trent Radio (int. #60)

Appearing individually

18. Artisti, Guilde des musiciens et musiciennes du Québec et Union des artistes (int. #91)

Panel of Interveners

19. Durham Radio Inc. (int. #96)
20. Vista Radio Ltd. (int. #76)

Appearing individually

21. National Coalition of Canadian Ethnic Broadcasters (int. #63)
22. Friends of Canadian Media (int. #30)

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Appearing individually

23. Indigenous Music Office (int. #43)
24. Canadian Independent Music Association (int. #86)
25. Canadian Association of Broadcasters (int. #78)

Panel of Interveners

26. ACCORD (int. #94)
27. Société canadienne des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (int. #93)
28. Songwriters Association of Canada (int. #89)

Appearing individually

29. Screen Composers Guild of Canada (int. #45)
30. Arsenal Media inc. (int. #51)
31. Corus Entertainment Inc. (int. #72)
32. FACTOR (int. #106)

Friday, 26 September 2025

Appearing individually

33. Apple Canada Inc. (int. #54)
34. Canadian Association of Aboriginal Broadcasters (int. #110)
35. Société professionnelle des auteurs, compositeurs du Québec et des artistes entrepreneurs (int. #83)

Panel of Interveners

36. Digital Media Association (int. #84)
37. Computer & Communications Industry Association (int. #33)

Appearing individually

38. Rogers Media Inc. (int. #104)
39. Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (int. # 109)

Panel of Interveners

40. Leclerc Communication inc. (int. #88)
41. RNC Media inc. (int. #67)

Monday, 29 September 2025

Appearing individually

42. Spotify (int. #97)
43. Octave Communications (int. #46)
44. Ontario Association of Broadcasters (int. #61)

Panel of Interveners

45. Byrnes Communications Inc. (int. #55)
46. Torres Media (int. #62)

Appearing individually

47. Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada et Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec (int. #41)
48. RAS Creative (int. #32)
49. Association des professionnels de l'édition musicale (int. #68)
50. The Davies Company (int. #74)
51. ADISQ (int. #80)

Date modified:

2025-09-25