Canada
- For Canadian home video ratings, se Canadian Home Video Rating System
Movie ratings in Canada are a provincial responsibility, and each province has its own legislation, rules and regulations regarding rating, exhibition and admission. Ratings are required for theatrical showings of movies, but are not required for home video. Film festivals which show unrated films (because they are independent films or foreign films not submitted for ratings) are treated as private showings by selling memberships to the festival, which circumvents the theatrical rating requirement.
There are currently six film classification offices rating movies in Canada, each an agency of a provincial government:
- in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and the Yukon, classifications are made by the British Columbia Film Classification Office
- in Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, classifications are made by Alberta Film Ratings
- in Manitoba, classifications are made by the Manitoba Film Classification Board
- in Ontario, classifications are made by the Ontario Film Review Board
- in Quebec, classifications are made by Régie du cinéma du Québec
- in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, classifications are made by the Maritime Film Classification Board
Newfoundland and Labrador has not legislated on film ratings and does not have a dedicated agency. However, some cinemas use the ratings of the Maritime Film Classification Board.
Read more about this topic: Motion Picture Rating System
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