You can participate in public proceedings by submitting your ideas, opinions and comments to the CRTC via an intervention. Your intervention helps the CRTC update its policies and evaluate:
Please note that section 26.(1) of the CRTC Rules of Practice and Procedure sets out the information required in your intervention.
Submit your intervention before 5 p.m. Vancouver time (8 p.m. Ottawa time) on or before the deadline date announced in the notice of consultation or indicated on the All Public Proceedings Open for Comment page by using one of the following:
When submitting your intervention to the CRTC on an application, you must send a copy of your intervention to the applicant.
If a document is sent by electronic means, the sender must keep proof of the sending and the receipt of the document for 180 days after the day on which it is filed.
To find a public proceeding, you can consult:
Many proceedings are announced by a notice of consultation. A notice will be issued for matters such as:
A Part 1 Proceeding is initiated by an application filed by an applicant that is not the subject of a notice of consultation. For broadcasting, it includes applications for licence amendments, additions to list of eligible satellite services and undue preference applications. For telecom, it includes applications related to disputes between providers (e.g. network interconnection, unjust discrimination) and requests for forbearance.
In this type of proceeding:
A hearing, announced in a notice of consultation, is a meeting where people can voice their opinions on the topic. A hearing is often used for new broadcasting licence applications, major policy issues or amendments to its broadcasting and telecommunications regulations. You can send written comments, and you can make a request to speak at the hearing.
If you want to speak at a hearing, you must make your request, in writing, when you submit your intervention and you must:
Keep in mind that not all public proceedings have a hearing, for example, Part 1 Proceedings. For more details, consult the notice of consultation for the proceeding that you are interested in.
If you plan to attend a hearing and have not requested to speak and require communications support such as assistive listening devices and sign-language interpretation, let us know at least 20 days before the hearing begins so that we can make the necessary arrangements.
All the information that you provide as part of a public process becomes part of a publicly accessible file on the CRTC Web site. This information includes your personal information, such as your full name, email address, street address, telephone and fax number(s), and any other personal information you provide. It becomes part of the Web site whether you send it in by postal mail, fax, or through the CRTC's Web site. Information that is explicitly granted confidentiality will not be posted.
If you send documents through the Web site, they are posted on the CRTC Web exactly as you send them, including any personal information in them, in the official language and format in which they are received. Documents not received electronically are made available in PDF format.
The personal information you provide will be used and may be disclosed for the purpose for which the information was obtained or compiled by the CRTC, or for a use consistent with that purpose.