at least 51% of the ownership and control of the Applicant company and copyright in the Eligible Project must be owned and controlled by an individual producer (or multiple producers) that is a First Nations, Inuit or Métis person (“Indigenous Owner”);
the Indigenous owner exercises full creative, executive, artistic, technical and financial control of the Eligible Project;
the Indigenous owner has meaningfully participated in the Eligible Project’s development and retains a financial interest in the Eligible Project that is proportional to its ownership;
the applicant must be either:
a) a company that:
i) is a for-profit (i.e., a taxable Canadian corporation, within the meaning of Canada’s Income Tax Act) production company.
ii) is Canadian-controlled as determined in sections 26 to 28 of the Investment Canada Act;
iii) is in good standing with all applicable talent and industry associations and guilds;
b) or a Canadian Broadcaster, such as:
i) a Canadian programming undertaking, public or private, licensed to operate by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC);
ii) an online service owned, controlled and operated by a Canadian CRTC-licensed programming undertaking;
iii) an online service owned, controlled and operated by a Canadian broadcasting distribution undertaking (“BDU”), licensed to operate by the CRTC or CRTC-licensed VOD services;