Registration - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Arts and Culture
• Broadcasting
• Industry
• Intellectual Property
• Justice and Law Enforcement
• Labour
• Telecommunications

Subject Matter Details

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Meetings with officials requesting that any proposed Copyright bill be balanced and responsive to the needs and demands of consumers, and promote innovation and the ability to maximize the use of new technologies. Meetings with officials from the Department of Canadian Heritage and Industry Canada to urge the continuation of Canada's position at international meetings concerning a possible WIPO Broadcast Rights Treaty to ensure that (i) Canada retains flexibility to maintain features of its domestic law that would require "exceptions" to any new WIPO Treaty, and (ii) that other international treaties (e.g. Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement) do not introduce de facto copyright obligations that are inconsistent with Canadian copyright law.
• Radiocommunication Act, amendments to strengthen enforcement of illegal satellite theft.

Policies or Program

• Foreign Ownership restrictions in telecommunications and satellites - further to the commitment made in the Speech from the Throne and Budget 2010 on liberalization of limits, we would like to ensure that the same rules be applied equally to Broadcasting Distribution Undertakings.
• Petition to Governor in Council to Vary, Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-632, in order to ensure same rules apply to cable operators as does incumbent phone companies

Policies or Program, Regulation

• Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2008-100, Regulatory frameworks for broadcasting distribution undertakings and discretionary programming services and Broadcasting Public Notice 2009-411 concerning issues in connection with over-the-air broadcasting, include "signal value compensation" or "fee for carriage"

Regulation

• Over the Top Providers - ensure that services like Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV operate under the same regulatory system as broadcast distributors.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Canadian Heritage (PCH)
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
• Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
• Competition Tribunal (CT)
• Environment Canada
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC)
• House of Commons
• Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
• Industry Canada
• Justice Canada (JC)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
• Senate of Canada
• Solicitor General Canada (SGC)
• Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD)

Address:
40 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario, ON  K1P 5K6
Canada

Telephone number: 613-688-6751
Fax number: 613-688-6799  

Client representative

Brad Shaw, CEO

Parent Company Information

Shaw Communications Inc. is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.

Business address:
c/o Charles King
40 Elgin St., 14th Floor
Ottawa, ON  K1P 5K6
Canada

Telephone number: 416-649-5210