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

4 (1) For the purposes of this Part, the number of persons of the English or French linguistic minority population in a province, CMA, CSD or service area is equal to the estimated number of persons of that population in that province, CMA, CSD or service area as determined by Statistics Canada under Method I on the basis of the census referred to in section 3.

(2) For the purposes of this Part, the total population in a province, CMA, CSD or service area is equal to the estimated total population, excluding institutional residents as defined in Population Estimates by First Official Language Spoken, published by Statistics Canada in September 1989, in that province, CMA, CSD or service area as determined by Statistics Canada on the basis of the census referred to in section 3.