Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Arts and Culture
- Broadcasting
- Canadian Television Fund (CTF)
- Employment and Training
- Intellectual Property
- International Trade
- Labour
- Taxation and Finance
- Telecommunications
- Terms of Trade
Subject Matter Details
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- Funding from Canadian Heritage for the production of annual research report "Profile: An Economic Report on the Canadian Film and Television Industry"
- Request funding for the creation of a mentorship program aimed at developing skill sets and acquiring work experience in the film, television and interactive media industry.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Bill C-10: An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act, relating to the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit program and the Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit program, particularly related to potential withdrawal of tax credits if subject matter of films is deemed objectionable
- Bill C-60 - An Act to Amend the Copyright Act with respect to amendments to the Copyright Act to protect against piracy, such as illegal copying of copyrighted subject matter
- Canada Income Tax Act relating to Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit program and to Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit Program
Policies or Program
- Benefits Policy relating to CRTC certified independent production funds and tangible public benefits involving television ownership transactions (Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2007-53, paragraph 109)
- CRTC Canadian program certification relating to criteria used to determine Canadian content of productions
- Canadian Audio-Visual Certification - relating to criteria for obtaining CAVCO certification of a production
- Department of Canadian Heritage co-production policy with regard to international production treaties
- Ensuring continuation of Canada New Media Fund
- Ensuring re-establishment of the Department of Canadian Heritage's Trade Routes program or the creation of an equivalent program
- Participating in the development of the funding criteria for Telefim Canada's Canadian Feature Film Fund (CFFF) through the CFFF Working Group
- Promoting allocation of portion funds raised through wireless spectrum auction to creation of new media content by the independent production sector
- Seeking changes to the criteria used in the funding and licensing criteria for television programming by the Canadian Television Fund, as set out in CRTC Report to the Minister of Canadian Heritage on the Canadian Television Fund
- Seeking creation of fund to be used to support productions that qualify as international treaty co-productions
- Seeking strengthening of Canadian content requirements through changes to criteria outlined in CRTC Public Notice 1999-97 - "Building on Success - A Policy Framework for Canadian Television"
- Seeking that the CRTC continue to require the adoption of Terms of Trade by Canadian broadcasters pursuant to Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2008-4 - "Regulatory Policy - Diversity of Voices" (paragraph 149)
Regulation
- Broadcasting Distribution Regulations relating to CRTC certified independent production funds and tangible public benefits involving television ownership transactions
Communication Techniques
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Written communication
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Oral communication
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Grass-roots communication
Government Institutions
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Canada Labour Relations Board (CLRB)
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Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
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Canadian Heritage (PCH)
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Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
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Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
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Competition Tribunal (CT)
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Finance Canada (FIN)
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Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC)
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Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC)
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Industry Canada
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Members of the House of Commons
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National Film Board (NFB)
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Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
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Public Safety Canada (PS)
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Revenue Canada (RC)
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Transport Canada (TC)
Government institutions added through a monthly communication report
- CBC
- Privy Council Office (PCO)
- Telefilm Canada
In-house Organization Details
Description of the organization's activities
As a non-profit trade association, the CFTPA represents almost 400 film, television and interactive media companies across the country. We negotiate and manage labour agreements, and actively lobby the federal and provincial governments on various policy areas including taxation, trade, copyright, broadcasting and film. Our National Mentorship Program trains young people to meet the demands of this evolving industry. The association also holds an annual networking conference, Prime Time in Ottawa, where we release Profile, our state of the industry report featuring the industry's most comprehensive statistics. We also publish GUIDE, Canada's production industry directory. With offices in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver, the CFTPA is always there for the independent Canadian producer.
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration
Norm Bolen,
President and Chief Executive Officer
Organization's membership or classes of membership
Membership:
(A)General: Voting membership and First Works Membership in the Corporation shall be limited to individuals who are Canadian Citizens or permanent residents, and majority-Canadian owned and controlled corporations or partnerships, (collectively, “Persons” and individually a “Person”).
(B)Voting Members:
Classes of Voting Members - Voting Membership in the Corporation shall be granted in one of the following classes:
(a)General: General membership shall be limited to those Persons who are engaged in film, television and/or interactive media production.
(b)Services Provider: Services Provider membership shall be limited to those Persons who provide necessary and valuable services (including, without limitation, financial, legal, facilities or other like services).
(c)Interactive Media: Interactive Media membership shall be limited to those Persons whose primary business is producing content for interactive media or Persons who produce a significant amount of content for interactive media in addition to film, and/or television production.
(d)Broadcaster Affiliate: Broadcaster Affiliate membership shall be limited to those Persons who are engaged in film and/or television production or the production of content for interactive media, and are affiliated with a private broadcaster or broadcast distribution undertaking. For the purposes of these By-Laws, two companies shall be affiliated if one company beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, voting securities carrying 30 per cent or more of the voting rights attached to all voting securities of the other company. In addition, if a company (A) is affiliated to another company (B) pursuant to the foregoing, and the other company (B) is affiliated to a third company (C) pursuant to the foregoing, then the company (A) is affiliated with the third company (C).
(C)Non Voting Members - Non-Voting Membership in the Corporation shall be granted in one of the following classes:
(a)First Works: First Works membership shall be limited to Persons who have never been or, none of whose principals (i.e. partners, shareholders, officers and directors) have ever had an ownership interest of any kind in a Person which was, a film, television and/or interactive media producer, and have received a producer-related credit.
This class of membership shall not be available to Persons after they have been First Works members for two years.
(b)Honorary: Honorary membership may be granted to those in the film, television and interactive media industry who have made extraordinary contributions to the Corporation or to the film, television or interactive media industry.
(c)Permittee: Permittee membership shall be limited to those film, television and interactive media production companies not otherwise eligible for membership who wish to work under the Corporation’s collective or guild agreements on a per project basis only. A Permittee membership shall be valid only for the project in respect of which it was granted.
(d)Special: Special membership may be granted in extra-ordinary circumstances to those who are not otherwise eligible for membership in the Corporation.
Government funding
End date of the last completed financial year:
2009-03-31
List of Government Funding
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Government Institution
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Funding Received in Last Financial Year
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Funding Expected in Current Financial Year
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Canadian Heritage (PCH)
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$35,000.00
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Yes
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Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)
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$267,526.00
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Yes
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National Film Board (NFB)
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$10,000.00
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Yes
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Telefilm Canada
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$107,000.00
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Yes
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In-house Organization Contact Information
Address:
902 - 151 Slater Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 5H3
Canada
Telephone number:
613-233-1444
Ext.
228
Fax number:
613-233-0073
Lobbyists Details
Employees who lobby for the organization
- John Barrack,
National Executive Vice-President & Counsel |
No public offices held
- Karla Bobadilla,
Director, Ontario Affairs & New Media Children's & Documentary Programming |
No public offices held
- Norm Bolen,
President and Chief Executive Officer |
No public offices held
- Reynolds Mastin,
Associate Counsel |
Public offices held
- Jayson Mosek,
National Industrial Relations Manager, Industrial Relations & Production Relations |
No public offices held
- Mario Mota,
Vice-President, Broadcasting Policy & Regulatory Affairs |
No public offices held
- Marc Seguin,
Vice-President, Feature Film & New Technology |
Public offices held
- Anne Trueman,
Director of Communications |
Public offices held
- Susanne Vaas,
Vice-President, Business Affairs |
Public offices held
- Tracey Wood,
Vice-President, Industrail & External Relations |
No public offices held
