Sub-series consists of files which document Flora MacDonald's activities as Minister of Communications with regards to implementation of policy, programs and legislation.
The record types are: Briefing memoranda from Alain Gourd, Deputy Minister of Communications documenting development of strategy and policy for legislation; briefing notes from exempt and departmental staff and Deputy Minister's assistants; discussion points; copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence; clippings; drafts of Bills; questions and answers for Minister to be used at meetings of the Standing Committee on Communications and Culture; Statement by Pierre Juneau, President of CBC; Communications strategy documents; briefing notes for upcoming meetings with members of Telecommunication organizations; press releases; reports; Minister working notes; minutes of proceedings and evidence of the Standing Committee on Communications and Culture; analysis and recommendations for funding reports; Projects submitted for review; executive summary of year end strategy, 1987-1988; news releases; copies of Cabinet Ministers' speeches; handwritten notes from Deputy Minister Alain Gourd to Flora MacDonald; briefing documents to be used by Flora MacDonald at the Priorities and Planning Sub-Committee on Trade Negotiations; memoranda to Cabinet; aide-mémoire; correspondence between Flora MacDonald's Chief of Staff and other Ministers' Chiefs of Staff; background information used by Minister to be used at discussions at the Trade Executive Committee; PMO press releases; Standing Committee Reports on telecommunication and cultural issues; ministers' speeches; and activities in Parliament briefing memoranda.
The issues documented are: Government Operation Committee; CBC; Broadcasting Act; Legislation to amend the Broadcasting Act on CBC accountability; Ballet Opera House; Cultural Initiatives Program (CIP); Public Service Employment Equity Report; nuclear submarines; appointments in the Department of Communications; Free Trade and Culture; memoranda to Cabinet - Strategy on culture in the context of the Canada - US Trade negotiations; aide-mémoire, Canada - US Free Trade Negotiations on cultural related aspects; Free Trade negotiations; issues brought forward at the Trade Executive Committee; Summaries of Bills - C-3 , Act to Amend the Radio Act; C-4, Act to Amend the Railway Act; C-7, National Archives Act; C-13, Bell Canada Act; C-22, Patent Act Amendments; C- 38, Teleglobe Canada Reorganization and Divestiture Act; C-60, Act to amend the Copyright Act; C-136, Broadcast Act; C-151, Radiocommunications Act. Ginn Canada and GLC Publishers; Canada Council; Copyright Act; Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission; Cultural-Overview 87; Cultural Strategies, 1988; Film Products Importation Bill; National Archives of Canada, Courses and Programs; National Arts Centre; National Library; National Museum-Legislation to establish Museums as Autonomous Institutions; Postal subsidies; Public Lending Rights; sound recording; status of the artist; Telefilm, Canadian film of the year; tabling of legislation on the status of artists, Memoranda to Cabinet; response to "Review of Taxation of Artists and the Arts"; information technologies; Space Program financing; Space Agency; CBC-All News station; Bill C-136, Broadcasting Act; Broadcasting Policy and Legislation; Film Policy: American Film Influence on the Canadian Film Industry, 1922-1983; review of Film Legislation; Cultural Protection for the Film Industry; Film Distribution Policy; Film Products Importation Legislation; Status Report on Tax Reform and Film Industries; Canada Film Year; Telecommunication Policy 1986 - Agreement with provinces; Broadcast and the Telecommunication MC on Delegation; Regional Development in Communication and Culture; Bell Canada International Petitions; Call-Net; and Opus Dei.
