Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Regulations, 2007

28 (1) The Chief Statistician of Canada shall, in each fiscal year, prepare and submit a certificate to the Minister on or before December 1 of the fiscal year.

(2) The information set out in the certificate shall

• (a) be based on the most recent publication of Statistics Canada – or, if these Regulations require information that is not published, the most recent information of Statistics Canada – that is available on or before November 22 of the fiscal year in which the certificate is submitted; and

• (b) be provided

  • (i) if the information is required on a fiscal year basis, for the fiscal year in which the certificate is submitted and the three prior fiscal years, or

  • (ii) if the information is required on a calendar year basis, for the calendar year that ends in the fiscal year in which the certificate is submitted and the three prior calendar years.

(3) The certificate shall set out the following information:

• (a) the population of all provinces and territories as determined by the Chief Statistician of Canada in accordance with paragraph 27(1)(a);

• (b) the population of all provinces and territories, including that for the seven prior fiscal years if the fiscal year is one in which Statistics Canada releases Census population results, as determined by the Chief Statistician of Canada in accordance with paragraph 27(1)(b);

• (c) the information produced by Statistics Canada that is referred to in section 19 and used to calculate each revenue base described in that section;

• (d) for each province and each territory, the revenue from each revenue source referred to in section 18 or, if the Chief Statistician of Canada is unable to differentiate between the revenue from two or more of those sources, an aggregate of the revenues of those sources; and

• (e) the information respecting the provincial local government expenditures referred to in subsection 24(1).

(4) The Chief Statistician of Canada shall, in the certificate,

• (a) if an aggregate of two or more revenue sources is provided in the certificate, inform the Minister of that aggregate; and

• (b) if any information required to be set out in the certificate is not available, inform the Minister that the information is missing.