How can comparative research into coregulatory regimes contribute to discussions of Canadian post-convergence communication policy?
Canadian work in the area of co-regulation has effectively stalled since the introduction of the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council in 1989. Canada, once at the forefront of media governance, must now take its cues from studies from Germany and the UK and look to the extensive adaptation of co-regulatory practices in Australia. While there is some scholarly research and analysis on co-regulation in advertising and broadcast standards, little work has been done on the broader implications of a more comprehensive application of co-regulation to the Canadian media system. In 2002, Monroe Price noted that Canadian media policy “has had a consistent dimension of international concern”; in areas of co-regulatory regimes I would argue the international approach must become a Canadian concern. The historic distinctiveness of the Canadian media climate (proximity to U.S. broadcasts, pluralist society, public/private system) is no longer unique to the Canadian experience and as such there i
