Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Regulations, 2007

27 (1) For the purposes of this Part, the Chief Statistician of Canada shall determine the population of a province in the following manner:

• (a) for the purposes of paragraphs 28(3)(a) and 30(3)(a), on the basis of Statistics Canada’s official estimate of the population of the province on the first day of June of that fiscal year; and

• (b) for the purposes of any other provision of this Part, on the basis of Statistics Canada’s official estimate of the population of the province on the first day of July of that fiscal year.

(2) For greater certainty, every reference to “province” in subsection (1) includes Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.