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Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s 2025-26 Departmental plan: At a glance

A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.

[Read the full departmental plan]

Key priorities

The CRTC’s top priorities for 2025-26 are as follows: 

Highlights

In 2025-26, total planned spending (including internal services) for the CRTC is $107,285,349 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 687. For complete information on the CRTC’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.

The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for 2025-26 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.

Core responsibility: Regulate and Supervise the Communications System

Planned spending: $107,285,349

Planned human resources: 687

Departmental results:

Modernizing Canada’s broadcasting framework and implementing the bargaining framework for the Online News Act

The CRTC will continue to implement the modernized Broadcasting Act to reflect how each radio station, television service and online streaming service should support the broadcasting system. The CRTC will continue to supervise the bargaining framework for the Online News Act to support fair negotiations between Canadian news organizations and the major online platforms. The CRTC will also continue to co-develop the Indigenous broadcasting policy by actively engaging with Indigenous communities to gather feedback and views and establishing a joint working group to help ensure the framework is Indigenous-led and anchored in Indigenous self-determination.

Promoting competition and investment to deliver reliable, affordable and high-quality Internet and cellphone services

The CRTC will continue to implement a renewed approach to Internet and cellphone competition, which includes ensuring the rates that competitors pay to access the networks of the large Internet and cellphone companies are just and reasonable. It will also continue to monitor the markets for Internet and cellphone services to ensure the right balance between increased competition and continued investment in high-quality networks. The CRTC will work with government partners to help connect rural, remote and Indigenous communities to high-speed Internet through the Broadband Fund. To continue supporting and protecting consumers, the CRTC will also help make shopping for Internet services easier; enhance protections for outages; and consult on new measures to help reduce online spam and nuisance calls.

Investing in the CRTC to better serve Canadians 

The CRTC will continue to issue timely and clear decisions, including by continuing to address the historical backlog of Part 1 applications and posting new ones as they are received. The CRTC will also enhance engagement with stakeholders and partners by, among other things, meeting with Canadians from across the country, supporting Indigenous participation in proceedings through the Indigenous Relations Team and creating a dedicated team to support engagement with official language minority community (OLMC) groups. The CRTC will also continue to work with members of the Canadian Digital Regulators Forum to share expertise and approaches to address emerging issues.

More information about Regulate and Supervise the Communications System can be found in the full departmental plan.

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