Marginal note:Official language minority communities

5.1 In regulating and supervising the Canadian broadcasting system and exercising its powers under this Act, the Commission shall enhance the vitality of official language minority communities in Canada and support and assist their development.

Marginal note:Consultation

• 5.2 (1) The Commission shall consult with official language minority communities in Canada when making decisions that could adversely affect them.

• Marginal note:Objectives of consultations

  (2) When engaging in consultations required by subsection (1), the Commission shall

  • (a) gather information to test its policies, decisions and initiatives;

  • (b) propose policies, decisions and initiatives that have not been finalized;

  • (c) seek the communities’ opinions with regard to the policies, decisions or initiatives that are the subject of the consultations;

  • (d) provide them with all relevant information on which those policies, decisions or initiatives are based;

  • (e) openly and meaningfully consider those opinions;

  • (f) be prepared to alter those policies, decisions or initiatives; and

  • (g) provide the communities with feedback, both during the consultation process and after a decision has been made.