Bill C-83

(a) that each registered party and each eligible party should have the freedom and flexibility to determine the proportion of commercial time and program time to be made available to it and the days on which and the hours during which that time as so proportioned should be made available; and

(b) that any broadcasting time to be made available to a registered party or eligible party should be made available fairly throughout prime time.

(a) reaches a majority of Canadians whose mother tongue is the same as that in which the network broadcasts;

(b) is licensed with respect to more than a particular series of programs or type of programming; and

(c) does not involve a distribution undertaking as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Broadcasting Act.

(a) two minutes to every registered party referred to in paragraph 337(1)(a) and every eligible party referred to in paragraph 339(2)(a); and

(b) the remainder to all registered parties that have been allocated any of the broadcasting time to be made available under section 335 and all eligible parties that have requested broadcasting time under section 339 in the proportion that their allocated or requested purchasable broadcasting time bears to the total broadcasting time allocated or requested under those sections.

(a) people resident within the areas served by broadcasting stations affiliated to the network that

(i) in the case of A.M. radio stations, are enclosed by the night-time interference-free official contour of the stations,

(ii) in the case of F.M. radio stations, are enclosed by the 50 mV per metre official contour of the stations, and

(iii) in the case of television stations, are enclosed by the Grade B official contour of the stations; and

(b) people resident outside the areas described in paragraph (a) to whom the signals of broadcasting stations affiliated to the network are available via distribution undertakings licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

(a) a set of guidelines respecting

(i) the allocation of or entitlement to broadcasting time under this Act,

(ii) the procedures for booking broadcasting time by registered parties and eligible parties, and

(iii) any other matters that may be pertinent to the conduct of broadcasters and network operators under this Act; and

(b) the guidelines provided to the Broadcasting Arbitrator by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission under section 347.

(a) a rate for broadcasting time made available to the party or candidate, in the period beginning on the issue of the writ and ending two days before polling day, that exceeds the lowest rate charged by the person for an equal amount of equivalent time on the same facilities made available to any other person at any time within that period; or

(b) a rate for an advertisement in a periodical publication published or distributed and made public in the period referred to in paragraph (a) that exceeds the lowest rate charged by the person for an equal amount of equivalent advertising space in the same issue of the periodical publication or in any other issue of it that is published or distributed and made public in that period.

PART 17

THIRD PARTY ELECTION ADVERTISING

(a) the production of material that is related to election advertising for use on television or radio or by any other medium directed to the general public, in a periodical publication or on billboards, posters or banners or what is commonly known as the Internet, and for distribution to households;

(b) the acquisition, in relation to election advertising, of

(i) broadcasting time at the facilities of a broadcasting undertaking as defined by subsection 2(1) of the Broadcasting Act, or

(ii) space for use in a periodical publication or on a billboard; or

(c) the mailing and distribution of election advertising material to households.

(a) amounts paid;

(b) liabilities incurred;

(c) the commercial value of property and services, other than volunteer labour, that are donated or provided; and

(d) amounts that represent the difference between an amount paid or a liability incurred for property and services, other than volunteer labour, and the commercial value of the property and services, when they are provided at less than their commercial value.

(a) naming them;

(b) showing their likenesses;

(c) identifying them by their respective political affiliations; or

(d) taking a position on an issue with which they alone are particularly associated.

(a) the name, address and telephone number of

(i) if the third party is an individual, the individual,

(ii) if the third party is a corporation, the corporation and the officer who has signing authority for it, and

(iii) if the third party is a group, the group and a person who is responsible for the group;

(b) the signature of the individual, officer or person referred to in subparagraph (a)(i), (ii) or (iii), respectively, as the case may be;

(c) the address and telephone number of the office of the third party where its books and records are kept and of the office to which communications may be addressed; and

(d) the name, address and telephone number of the third party's financial agent.

(a) a candidate or an official agent of a candidate;

(b) a person who is the chief agent, or a registered agent, of a registered party;

(c) an election officer or an employee of a returning officer; and

(d) a person who is not a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Immigration Act.

(a) a person who is a member in good standing of a corporation, an association or an institute of professional accountants; or

(b) a partnership every partner of which is a member in good standing of a corporation, an association or an institute of professional accountants.

(a) the third party's financial agent;

(b) a person who signed the application made under subsection 353(2);