The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) requires a service provider Contractor for French- to-English and English-to-French translation services for decisions, notice of consultations, orders, regulatory policies and information bulletins (DNOs).
The CRTC publishes on average between 475 – 500 DNOs per year and has an average annual translation volume of approximately 500,000 words, which may vary significantly from year to year depending on the policy direction. The translation distribution is English to French (approximately 85%) and French to English (approximately 15%). All DNOs must be available in both official languages and are posted on the CRTC’s website for industry stakeholders and Canadians to access.
Individual DNOs may range from one page to 150 pages, depending on the nature of the content. The content originates either jointly or individually from the Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Compliance and Enforcement, Legal and / or Consumer, Research and Communications sectors. In 2019, the Telecommunications (51%) and Broadcasting (37%) sectors generated the bulk of the DNOs. The Telecommunications sector DNOs tend to be lengthy and heavily use technical language, while Broadcasting sector DNOs tend to be shorter and less technical.
The Decisions Division in the Corporate Services Sector drafts, reviews and / or revises the DNOs based on content originating for the abovementioned sectors. All requests for DNO translations will be coordinated by the CRTC Translation Coordinator(s) in Decisions Division located at the CRTC’s head office in Gatineau.
