Explain The Key Challenges To Canadian Broadcasting Policy In The Twenty First Century

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RESEARCH PAPER OUTLINE:
CHALLENGES TO CANADIAN BROADCASTING POLICY

In a background paper for the Library of Parliament's Research Service, Dewing (2011) briefly outlines five key challenges to Canadian broadcasting policy in the twenty-first century. These challenges indicate that Canadian broadcasting is entering into many new changes in technology and market structure and behaviour. Current broadcasting policy has not caught up with these developments and thus is not giving the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission the tools it needs to effectively regulate a broadcasting industry that is very different from what it was before. On some issues, like digitization and new media, the CRTC is uncertain about what to do and