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Bill C-325

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	1st Session, 37th Parliament, 49-50 Elizabeth II, 2001
	House of Commons of Canada
	BILL C-325
	An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act (designation of cable channels)
R.S., c. B-9	Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
	*1. Paragraph 3(1)(t) of the Broadcasting Act* is amended by adding the following after subparagraph (ii):**
	(ii.1) should be free to determine, together with the broadcasting undertakings whose programs they distribute, which of the available channels the programs will be carried on;
	2. Section 26 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):
Channel allocation	(1.1) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Governor in Council shall not issue any direction to the Commission to require a distribution undertaking to provide a service from a programming undertaking on a particular channel or to prevent the distribution undertaking and programming undertaking from determining between them which of the available channels a particular program should be carried on.