Redesigning Federal Programs for the Periodical Industry - A discussion paper to guide consultations

Department of Canadian Heritage

January 2008

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• What Canadian Heritage does now
  1. The Publications Assistance Program (PAP)
  2. The Canada Magazine Fund (CMF)
  3. Legislation and other funding programs
  
  
• What has led Canadian Heritage to propose changes
  1. Evaluation findings
  2. Challenges with the Publications Assistance Program
  3. Digital technologies
  4. Funding by Canada Post
  5. Other considerations
  
  
• What Canadian Heritage proposes
  1. The Canada Periodical Fund
  2. Program objectives
  3. Details on the proposed Aid to Periodical Publishers component
  4. Formula design considerations
  5. Details on the proposed Collective Initiatives component
  6. What would this proposal accomplish?
  
  

• Ten questions for you

• Annex A: Industry overview
  1. The magazine industry in Canada
  2. The newspaper industry in Canada
  
  

• Annex B: Resources

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