Broadcasting - Staff Letter addressed to Bev Kirshenblatt (CBC/Radio-Canada)

Ottawa, 27 September 2024

References: 1011-NOC2024-0137

BY E-MAIL

Bev Kirshenblatt
Executive Director, Corporate & Regulatory Affairs
CBC/Radio-Canada
Ottawa, ON
bevkirshenblatt.regaffairs@cbc.ca

Subject: Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2024-137 - Procedural request by Forum for Research and Policy in Communications for CBC/Radio-Canada to provide documents on the record of the proceeding

To Bev Kirshenblatt,

On August 13, 2024, the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) filed a procedural request on the record of Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2024-137 – Call for comments – Development of a regulatory policy for closed captioning provided by online streaming undertakings asking that CBC/Radio-Canada provide FRPC with certain documents related to its closed captioning monitoring system pursuant to section 29 of the CRTC’s Rules of Practice and Procedure. Section 29 sets out that:

  1. A party may request in writing that any other party produce for the requesting party’s inspection a copy of any document that has been referred to in a document that the other party has filed with the Commission and permit the requesting party to make copies of it.
  2. The requesting party must file its request with the Commission and serve it on the other party.
  3. A party that fails to produce a copy of the document within 10 days after the day on which the request is filed must not rely on the document.

A response from CBC/Radio-Canada to FRPC’s request has not been received. Staff wishes to remind CBC/Radio-Canada that, if it seeks to rely on any document responsive to this request, it must produce a copy.

Yours sincerely,

Original signed by Jennifer Porteous, acting Director

Nanao Kachi
Director, Social and Consumer Policy

c.c.: execdir@frpc.net

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