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Provided by Grant Buchanan

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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 The Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto followed by two years practising communications law with Johnston & Buchan LLP in Ottawa. Ten years in-house with Allarcom Limited and WIC Western Communications Ltd. in Edmonton and Ottawa and two years with CanWest Global in 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 Faculty of Communication & Design and the Faculty of Law at Ryerson University

Publications

Frequent speaker and co-author of the following McCarthy Tétrault books: 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.

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