Official Languages (Communications with and Services to the Public) Regulations

3 English or French linguistic minority population means that portion of the population in a province in which an office or facility of a federal institution is located that is the numerically lower official language population in the province, as determined by Statistics Canada under Method I on the basis of

• (a) for the purposes of paragraphs 5(1)(a), (b) and (d) to (r), subsection 5(2) and paragraph 7(4)(a),

  • (i) before the results of the 1991 census of population are published, the 1986 census of population taken pursuant to the Statistics Act, and

  • (ii) after the results of the 1991 census of population are published, the most recent decennial census of population for which results are published; and

• (b) for the purposes of paragraphs 5(1)(c) and 6(1)(d) and (2)(c), subparagraphs 6(2)(d)(i) and 7(4)(c)(ii) and (iii) and paragraph 7(4)(d), the 1986 census of population taken pursuant to the Statistics Act.