Marginal note:Regulations

20. The Governor in Council may make regulations for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act, including regulations respecting

• (a) qualifications for investigators;

• (b) how investigations are to be conducted; and

• (c) criteria to determine whether advertising services are directed at the Canadian market.

Marginal note:Regulations defining certain expressions

20.1 The Governor in Council may make regulations defining, for the purpose of section 21.1, the expressions “revenues generated by supply of advertising services directed at the Canadian market” and “revenues generated by the total supply of advertising services”.

Marginal note:Exception — extent of grandfathering

21. This Act does not apply so as to prevent a foreign publisher who lawfully supplied advertising services directed at the Canadian market by means of a periodical during the year before the day on which this Act was introduced in the House of Commons from continuing to supply advertising services directed at the Canadian market by means of that periodical.

Marginal note:Exception — percentage of permitted advertising revenue

21.1 This Act does not apply to a foreign publisher who supplies advertising services directed at the Canadian market by means of an issue of a periodical, if the revenues generated by the supply of advertising services directed at the Canadian market represent, in comparison to the revenues generated by the total supply of advertising services, by means of any of those issues

• (a) during the period of 18 months beginning on the day on which this Act comes into force, not more than 12 per cent;

• (b) during the period of 18 months immediately following the period referred to in paragraph (a), not more than 15 per cent; and

• (c) after the period referred to in paragraph (b), not more than 18 per cent.

Marginal note:Exception — paragraph 15(a) Investment Canada Act

• 21.2 (1) This Act does not apply to a foreign publisher who, after the coming into force of this Act, makes an investment in periodical publishing that has been prescribed under paragraph 15(a) of the Investment Canada Act as a specific type of business activity related to Canada’s cultural heritage or national identity and that has been reviewed under Part IV of that Act by the Minister responsible for it and for which that Minister is satisfied or is deemed to have been satisfied that the investment is likely to be of net benefit to Canada.

• Marginal note:When no exception

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a foreign publisher referred to in that subsection who is subject to an order made under paragraph 40(2)(e) or (f) of the Investment Canada Act.

• Marginal note:Exception tied to investment

  (3) This Act applies to a foreign publisher referred to in subsection (1), other than in relation to the foreign publisher’s investment referred to in that subsection.