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The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission dismissed an appeal from the House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations to bar ‘authoritarian state-controlled broadcasters.’
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OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Canada’s official broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), dismissed an appeal by MPs to ban all Chinese Communist Party (CCP) state-run programs from being allowed to air on Canadian cable and satellite programming.
As per Blacklock’s Reporter, on Monday the CTRC rejected outright a request from the House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations that recommended CCP-financed shows from “authoritarian state-controlled broadcasters” be banned in Canada.
As it stands today, the CCP-run and backed Charming China Entertainment and China Yellow River TV, Beijing TV, and China Central Television all remain on the CRTC’s annual “Revised List of Non-Canadian Programming Services,” which are available on a subscription basis.
The committee, in a May 17, 2023, report, had voiced concerns from witnesses who said the “state of Canadian Mandarin and Cantonese language media is being compromised by the People’s Republic of China.”
“Their concerns were primarily based on China’s acquisitions of Chinese Canadian traditional media and the use of China-controlled social media applications to spread disinformation,” the report read.
In another report titled A Threat to Canadian Sovereignty, it was recommended to the cabinet of the federal Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that it “direct the CRTC to a new broadcasting policy of general application that authoritarian state-controlled broadcasters not be on the List of Non-Canadian Programming Services and Stations Authorized for Distribution.”
Trudeau’s cabinet, however, did not comment on this matter.
Of note is that in 2022 the CRTC went as far as to ban state-run Russia Today from Canadian airwaves.
As it stands now, China Central Television is allowed to operate in Canada along with other global networks such as Fox News and the British Broadcasting Corporation.