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Gender parity in Canada’s film and television production industry

This initiative was launched in 2018 following the CRTC Women in Production Summit. It was an important first step in the development of solutions to increase women’s access to key creative positions and production budgets in the Canadian film and television industry.

Every year, broadcasters publish an annual status report outlining their respective progress towards achieving gender parity for their in-house and commissioned productions.

In the context of the modernized Broadcasting Act, the CRTC has issued several decisions. In Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2025-299, published November 2025, the CRTC concluded that the annual production report has been successful in tracking data for certain equity‑deserving groups, notably women in production, as well as official language minority communities (OLMCs) and Indigenous peoples. It was determined that this report could be expanded to collect information on all equity‑deserving groups. These include racialized people, people with disabilities, and individuals who identify as 2SLGBTQI+, in addition to women.

As a result, starting in the 2025-2026 broadcast year, the CRTC will collect, through the annual production report, information on the presence of people in key creative positions who self-identify as members of these equity-deserving groups, members of OLMCs and Indigenous peoples.

Because this information will now be collected through the expanded annual production report, and keeping with our efforts to reduce red tape, the CRTC is ending the requirement to submit the annual Women in Production Report.

The CRTC would like to thank participants for submitting their Women in Production Reports and for their continued efforts to advance gender parity.

Reports from previous years remain available below.

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Broadcaster Action plan 2026 progress report
Bell Media Women in Production - Gender Parity Action Plan Bell Media Women in Production 2026 Annual Report
Blue Ant Media Implementation Plan for Achieving Gender Parity in Key Creative Positions Blue Ant Media - Gender Parity Status Report 2026
CBC/Radio-Canada Women in Production Action Plan CBC/Radio-Canada Women in Production 2026 Annual Report
Corus Entertainment N/A Women in Production Progress Report Corus Voluntary Commitment 2026
Rogers Media Rogers Media Inc. - Women in Production Action Plan Rogers Sports & Media's Women in Production 2026 Annual Report
TVA Group (in French only) Plan d’action de TVA femmes en production – en route vers la parité TVA Group - 2026 Report

View the broadcasters previous progress reports

Bell Media

Blue Ant Media

Groupe TVA

CBC/Radio-Canada

Corus Entertainment

Rogers Media

Members of the steering committee

Additional research on gender parity

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