Peter S. Grant

Peter S. Grant is a retired Senior Counsel at McCarthy Tétrault LLP.  For many years he was the head of its Communications Group. Mr. Grant pioneered the field of communications law in Canada, and for over 50 years his practice was substantially devoted to this field, including broadcasting and cable television licensing, satellite services, copyright negotiations, cultural industries, and telecommunications regulation.   Mr. Grant is an expert on cultural industries and international trade policy, and has spoken widely on cultural policy issues in conferences around the world, including London, Brussels, Rabat, Cape Town, Valencia, Berlin, Montego Bay, Washington, Port of Spain, Hong Kong, Sydney and Auckland. He has also advised a number of foreign governments and public broadcasters on broadcast matters, including the BBC (Britain) and RAI (Italy).

Mr. Grant is the author or co-author of numerous articles, books and publications, including Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2004), Canadian Broadcasting Regulatory Handbook, now in its 14th edition, and Communications Law and the Courts in Canada, now in its third edition. His autobiography, Changing Channels: Confessions of a Canadian Communications Lawyer, was published by The Porcupine’s Quill Press in 2013.  Mr. Grant was one of six experts on the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel, which published its report, Canada's Communications Future: Time to Act, in January 2020.