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With a collective viewership of approximately five million two hundred thousand people, The Amazing Race Canada, Rookie Blue and Saving Hope are the three most watched Canadian television series in 2013 (Bell Media, 2013). These as well as many other Canadian series can largely contribute their success to the government of Canada’s implementation of Canadian content regulations. These regulations primarily came in the forum of the Broadcasting Act. The regulations have since been seen as the primary driving force of the Canadian film and video production industry. As they ensure the productions are broadcasted and produced. Allowing the industry to prosper despite the increased presence of American cultural exports. Illustrating certain aspects of the Broadcasting Act of 1991, CRTC’s Public Notice 1999-97 and CRTC’s Public Notice 1998-44 this paper will illustrate how the Canadian citizens (audience) are the main cultural and economic benefactors of the content regulations set forth by the Government of Canada. In 1932, due to an overwhelming concern for the spill over of American culture into Canadian airwaves the Canadian Government implemented the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act (Dewing, 2012). This act would see the creation of the Canadian telecommunications industry. As the act would implement the first Canadian public broadcaster, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, now known as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (Dewing, 2012). It wasn’t until the Broadcasting Act of 1958 that the previous act was updated. The updated act featured the first ever-Canadian content regulations (Dewing, 2012). As the government of Canada believed “the broadcasting system should be Canadian in content and character” (Dew...

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...ominant use, of Canadian creative and other resources in the creation and presentation of programming,” (Government of Canada, 1991) By making it mandatory to make full use of Canadian resources the CRTC forces the Canadian film and video production industry to reinvest production money back into the Canadian economy through labour and material. Thus it is evident that the Canadian content regulations imposed on Canadian television broadcasters not only benefit Canadian citizens by giving them the content they crave, but also economically. All in all it is evident that the Canadian content regulations made in the Government of Canada’s Broadcasting Act of 1991, as well as the CRTCs Public Notice’s 1999-97 and 1998-44, ensure that the Canadian citizens (audience) are the primary cultural and economic benefactors of the content regulations set forth by the CRTC.