Movie Rating System
Canada

In Canada, movie ratings are a provincial responsibility. Between the 10 provinces and 3 territories, there are 7 film rating boards and offices, many of which use different rating symbols and descriptors. The boards are as follows:

• British Columbia (Also provides ratings for the province of Saskatchewan and the Yukon Territory.)
• Alberta (Also provides ratings for the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.)
• Manitoba
• Ontario
• Quebec
• Nova Scotia (Ratings also recognized in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Used as advisory information in Newfoundland.)

All but two boards (British Columbia and Alberta) apply their ratings to home video products.

Finally, the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association (CMPDA) offers a national video rating that is found on many of the country's VHS and DVD products. An average of provincial ratings received by a movie when it ran in theaters, the home video rating is purely advisory and is superseded in provinces that apply their own rating to home video products.