It’s been a long time coming: a draft of the cftpa/cbc Terms of Trade Agreement is due for an airing before the cftpa board at the Banff Television Festival.

The Terms of Trade Agreement, once finalized, will seek to stipulate how the pubcaster, Canada’s single largest commissioner of product, should go about acquiring and using independently produced content.

The agreement was sparked in part by the fact that similar agreements exist between producers associations and national broadcasters in Australia and the u.k.