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Canada’s heritage minister says that bringing a “digital approach” to the country’s decades-old cultural policies will be one of the cornerstones of her mandate.

Melanie Joly announced Saturday she will lead a series of public consultations over the next several months that will examine the government’s role in supporting Canadian content creation.

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In an interview Sunday, she said the raft of government tools to support the cultural sector predate the Internet and need to be updated.

“All the acts, all the different funds, from legislation to regulation to incentives and direct contributions, we want to make sure that these are all relevant,” she said.

“If there are new ways of dealing with supporting Canadian content in a digital area, we’ll look at it and we will create it.”

Federal support for the cultural sector is currently provided through a combination of funding mechanisms, legislation, national institutions and policies.