Grant Buchanan
Canada Guide 2025
Senior Statespeople : Telecommunications & Broadcasting
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Senior Statespeople
About
Provided by Grant Buchanan
Practice Areas
Practice focuses on broadcast and telecom regulation and Copyright Board work. Broad understanding of the communications industry, related corporate documentation and the framework for broadcast and telecom regulation and financing.
Career
Ontario Bar, 1980. Six years with Scotiabank in Toronto, then two years practising communications law with Johnston & Buchan LLP in Ottawa. Ten years in-house with Allarcom, WIC Western Communications and CanWest Global in Edmonton and Ottawa before joining McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Toronto in 2000.
Professional Memberships
President, Canadian Broadcasters Rights Agency (1990-2020)
President, International Institute of Communications, Canadian Chapter
National Coordinator, McCarthy Tétrault LLP/Martin Family Initiative Indigenous Legal Mentoring Program
Distinguished Lawyer-In-Residence in the Creative School and the Faculty of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Member, Steering Committee, Digital Media @ the Crossroads Conference
Publications
Frequent speaker and co-author of the following McCarthy Tétrault books: ‘The Broadcasting Act, Text & Commentary’ (2023), the ‘Guide to the Copyright Board of Canada’ (2020), 'Canadian Broadcasting Regulatory Handbook' and the 'Canadian Telecommunications Regulatory Handbook' (2017); the 'Canadian Spam, Telemarketing and Privacy Handbook' and the 'Regulatory Guide to Canadian Radio' (2016). Also a major contributor to The World Bank’s infoDev program’s ‘Telecommunications Regulation Handbook’.
Personal
Fluent in English and French with a working knowledge of Spanish.