CPAC is a Canadian

Canada

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 Category A specialty

Specialty channel

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 service devoted to coverage of public and government affairs, including carrying a full, uninterrupted feed of proceedings of the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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, with two separate audio channels; one in English and the other in French. CPAC is similar to services C-SPAN

C-SPAN

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 (USA

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), La Chaîne parlementaire

La Chaîne parlementaire

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 (France

France

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), Phoenix

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 (Germany

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), and BBC Parliament

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 (UK

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); which CPAC occasionally airs programming from.

CPAC's main purpose is the broadcast of proceedings of the House of Commons.