Canada minister urges new media laws to boost local content – paper
TORONTO Canada’s Liberal government is prepared to overhaul the country’s laws governing broadcasting, media and cultural industries to support local content, Heritage Minister Melanie Joly told the Globe and Mail in a report on Saturday, announcing a new policy direction in what she called a broken system. Canada’s broadcast regulator has long had requirements for networks to carry certain amounts of local content. But it cut that […]