Editing Canadian content (section)

{{short description|Portion of Canadian contribution in broadcast work}}
{{Redirect|CanCon|other uses|Can-con (disambiguation){{!}}Can-con}}
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'''Canadian content''' (abbreviated '''CanCon''', '''cancon''' or '''can-con'''; {{Langx|fr|contenu canadien}}) refers to the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) requirements, derived from the Broadcasting Act of Canada, that radio and television [[Broadcasting|broadcasters]] (including cable and satellite [[specialty channel]]s, and since the passing of the ''[[Online Streaming Act]]'', Internet-based video services) must produce and broadcast a certain [[percentage]] of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada. CanCon also refers to that content itself, and, more generally, to cultural and creative content that is Canadian in nature.

Current Canadian content percentages are as follows: radio airplay is 35% (with partial exceptions for some specialty formats such as classical). Some stations are required to air a higher percentage based on their "promise of performance" information during their license submission. Broadcast television is 55% CanCon yearly or 50% daily (CBC has a 60% CanCon quota; some specialty or multicultural formats have lower percentages).

The loss of the protective Canadian content quota requirements is one of the concerns of those opposed to the [[Trans-Pacific Partnership]].<ref name="CanCon5Oct2012">{{Cite news |last=Tencer |first=Daniel |date=5 October 2012 |title=Trans-Pacific Partnership: Canadian Content Rules Under Pressure From U.S. Lobbyists |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/10/04/trans-pacific-partnership-cancon_n_1940312.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701160921/http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/10/04/trans-pacific-partnership-cancon_n_1940312.html |archive-date=July 1, 2013 |access-date=2 September 2013 |work=The Huffington Post |location=Canada}}</ref> Canada entered into the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multilateral free trade agreement, in October 2012.<ref name="USTR" /><ref name="NZ" /><ref name="GC9oct2012">{{Cite press release |title=Canada Formally Joins Trans-Pacific Partnership |date=9 October 2012 |publisher=Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada |url=http://www.international.gc.ca/media_commerce/comm/news-communiques/2012/10/09a.aspx?view=d |access-date=2012-12-13 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910004835/http://www.international.gc.ca/media_commerce/comm/news-communiques/2012/10/09a.aspx?view=d |archive-date=September 10, 2013}}</ref>