The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has issued a number of corrections to CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcast licence.

The changes are related to a number of errors found in the body of the licence, which was issued last June, and are unrelated to the reconsideration process ordered by the Governor in Council last September, according to the CRTC.

In the CRTC’s notice of the corrections, it stated that while the corrections “do not alter the Commission’s majority decisions set out in the CBC licence renewal decision,” the errors – which include “missing words, erroneous translations, [and] incorrect numbering or inconsistencies” — could have an impact “on the interpretation of the decision.”

Among the notable corrections is the clarification that the CRTC did not adopt CBC’s proposed changes to the definition of locally reflective news. The previous version found in paragraph 420 of the licence omitted the word “not” in the decision.

The CRTC also included several clarifications around requirements for official language minority communities (OLMCs). It now includes OLMCs in a decision requiring CBC to provide an enhanced production report on key production roles held by members of underrepresented groups. The list included “Indigenous Peoples, racialized Canadians, Canadians with disabilities, or Canadians who self-identify as LGBTQ2,” and now mentions OLMCs.

The Commission also clarified that the “women intersectionality credit,” which provides a 50% incentive credit against “independent production expenditure requirements” for productions produced by women from certain underrepresented groups, does not apply to OLMC producers.

The CRTC was ordered to reconsider a number of decisions within the renewed broadcast licence for CBC/Radio-Canada, which is currently in effect until Aug. 31, 2027, following a series of petitions and letters of support from industry organizations such as the Canadian Media Producers Association and the Directors Guild of Canada.

The petitions argued that the CRTC had exceeded its mandate by removing a condition of licence around the use of independent producers, modifying it from a requirement to an expectation.

A decision on the reconsideration process has not been made as of press time. The Commission said the process “will be initiated in a separate proceeding.”

A version of this story previously appeared on Playback.