Government promises

Hold a national summit on plans to restart and position the arts, culture and heritage sectors for the future.

Ensure sufficient compensation is available for media production stoppages related to COVID-19.

Launch an Arts and Culture Recovery Program to mitigate the impacts of reduced capacity in cultural venues.

Implement a COVID-19 transitional support program to provide emergency relief to artists and cultural workers.

Work on the planning, design and construction of a national monument in Ottawa to honour residential school survivors.

Ensure that the Indigenous Languages Act continues to be fully implemented and is supported by long-term, predictable and sustainable funding.

Amend the Copyright Act to further protect artists, creators and copyright holders.

Reintroduce legislation to reform the Broadcasting Act to ensure foreign web giants contribute to the creation and promotion of Canadian stories and music.

Introduce legislation to require digital platforms that generate revenues from the publication of news content to share a portion of their revenues with Canadian news outlets to level the playing field between global platforms and Canadian outlets.

Develop and introduce legislation to combat serious forms of harmful online content to protect Canadians and hold social media platforms and other online services accountable for the content they host.

Increase funding to Telefilm Canada and the Canada Media Fund.

Increase the proportion of funding for French audiovisual content at Telefilm Canada and the Canada Media Fund from 33 per cent to 40 per cent.

Provide the Indigenous Screen Office with additional ongoing funding.

Increase annual contributions to the Canada Music Fund.

Increase funding for the Canada Book Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Public Lending Right Program.

Support productions led by people from equity-deserving groups in the Canadian audiovisual industry.

Invest in the Local Journalism Initiative to support the production of news in underserved communities.

Develop a new Changing Narratives Fund to provide diverse communities with the tools to tell their own stories and to promote diverse voices in arts, culture and media.

Modernize CBC/Radio-Canada in a manner that respects the public broadcaster’s independence.

Modernize the institutions and funding tools that support Canada’s audiovisual sector, to make funding platform-agnostic and open to more traditionally under-represented storytellers, while promoting Canadian productions and ensuring that Canadians are better equipped to own, and benefit from, the content that they produce.

Increase the funding for the Court Challenges Program.

Build an international coalition to develop a new UNESCO convention on the diversity of content online.

Contribute to the funding of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations in Quebec and across the country and support other important celebrations for French language communities.