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

5 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 22(b) of the Act, there is significant demand for communications with and services from an office or facility of a federal institution in both official languages where

• (a) the office or facility is located in a CMA that has at least 5,000 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population and is the only office or facility of the institution in the CMA that provides a certain service;

• (b) the office or facility is located in a CMA that has at least 5,000 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the office or facility is one of two or more offices or facilities of the institution in the CMA that provide the same services and those services are not available in both official languages at a proportion of those offices or facilities that is at least equal to the proportion of that population in the CMA to the total population in the CMA or, if the number representing that proportion of offices is equal to less than one, at at least one of those offices or facilities, the choice of which depends on

  • (i) the distribution of the linguistic minority population within the CMA, and

  • (ii) the function of the offices or facilities that provide those services, their clientele and their location within the CMA;

• (c) the office or facility is located in a province in which the English or French linguistic minority population is equal to at least 5 per cent of the total population in the province and is located in a CMA that has a population of at least 1,000,000 persons, the office or facility is one of two or more offices or facilities of the institution in the CMA that provide any of the services referred to in subparagraphs (f)(i) to (vi) and those services are not available in both official languages at one office plus at a proportion of those offices or facilities that is at least equal to the proportion of that population in the CMA to the total population in the CMA or, if the number representing that proportion of offices is equal to less than one, at at least two of those offices or facilities, the choice of which depends on

  • (i) the distribution of the linguistic minority population within the CMA, and

  • (ii) the function of the offices or facilities that provide those services, their clientele and their location within the CMA;

• (d) the office or facility is located in a CMA that has fewer than 5,000 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population and does not provide any of the services referred to in subparagraphs (f)(i) to (vi), and at that office or facility over a year at least 5 per cent of the demand from the public for services is in the official language of that population;

• (e) the office or facility is located in a CMA that has fewer than 5,000 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population and the service area of the office or facility has at least 5,000 persons of the linguistic minority population;

• (f) the office or facility is located in a CMA that has fewer than 5,000 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population and is the only office or facility of the institution in the CMA that provides

  • (i) services related to income security programs of the Department of National Health and Welfare,

  • (ii) services of a post office,

  • (iii) services of an employment centre of the Department of Employment and Immigration,

  • (iv) services of an office of the Department of National Revenue (Taxation),

  • (v) services of an office of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada, or

  • (vi) services of an office of the Public Service Commission;

• (g) the office or facility is located in a CMA that has fewer than 5,000 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the office or facility is one of two or more offices or facilities of the institution in the CMA that provide any of the services referred to in subparagraphs (f)(i) to (vi) and those services are not available in both official languages at a proportion of those offices or facilities that is at least equal to the proportion of that population in the CMA to the total population in the CMA or, if the number representing that proportion of offices is equal to less than one, at at least one of those offices or facilities, the choice of which depends on

  • (i) the distribution of the linguistic minority population within the CMA, and

  • (ii) the function of the offices or facilities that provide those services, their clientele and their location within the CMA;

• (h) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD and

  • (i) the service area of the office or facility has at least 500 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population and the number of those persons is equal to at least 5 per cent of the total population of that service area,

  • (ii) the service area of the office or facility has at least 5,000 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population,

  • (iii) the office or facility serves the CSD and is the only office or facility of the institution in the CSD that provides a certain service, the CSD has at least 500 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population and the number of those persons is equal to at least 5 per cent of the total population in the CSD, or

  • (iv) the service area of the office or facility includes all or part of two or more provinces in which the languages of the English or French linguistic minority populations are not the same;

• (i) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD that it serves, the CSD has at least 500 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the number of those persons is equal to at least 5 per cent and less than 30 per cent of the total population in the CSD, the office or facility is one of two or more offices or facilities of the institution in the CSD that provide the same services and those services are not available in both official languages at a proportion of those offices or facilities that is at least equal to the proportion of that population in the CSD to the total population in the CSD or, if the number representing that proportion of offices is equal to less than one, at at least one of those offices or facilities, the choice of which depends on

  • (i) the distribution of the linguistic minority population within the CSD, and

  • (ii) the function of the offices or facilities that provide those services, their clientele and their location within the CSD;

• (j) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD that it serves, the CSD has at least 500 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the number of those persons is equal to at least 30 per cent of the total population in the CSD and the office or facility is one of two or more offices or facilities of the institution in the CSD that provide the same services;

• (k) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD that it serves, the CSD has at least 500 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the number of those persons is equal to less than 5 per cent of the total population in the CSD, the office or facility does not provide any of the services referred to in subparagraphs (l)(i) to (vii) and at that office or facility over a year at least 5 per cent of the demand from the public for services is in the official language of the linguistic minority population;

• (l) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD that it serves, the CSD has at least 500 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the number of those persons is equal to less than 5 per cent of the total population in the CSD and the office or facility is the only office or facility of the institution in the CSD that provides

  • (i) services related to income security programs of the Department of National Health and Welfare,

  • (ii) services of a post office,

  • (iii) services of an employment centre of the Department of Employment and Immigration,

  • (iv) services of an office of the Department of National Revenue (Taxation),

  • (v) services of an office of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada,

  • (vi) services of a detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or

  • (vii) services of an office of the Public Service Commission;

• (m) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD that it serves, the CSD has at least 500 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the number of those persons is equal to less than 5 per cent of the total population in the CSD, the office or facility is one of two or more offices or facilities of the institution in the CSD that provide any of the services referred to in subparagraphs (l)(i) to (vii) and those services are not available in both official languages at a proportion of those offices or facilities that is at least equal to the proportion of that population in the CSD to the total population in the CSD or, if the number representing that proportion of offices is equal to less than one, at at least one of those offices or facilities, the choice of which depends on

  • (i) the distribution of the linguistic minority population within the CSD, and

  • (ii) the function of the offices or facilities that provide those services, their clientele and their location within the CSD;

• (n) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD that it serves, the CSD has at least 200 and fewer than 500 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the number of those persons is equal to at least 5 per cent of the total population in the CSD, the office or facility does not provide any of the services referred to in subparagraphs (l)(i) to (vii) and at that office or facility over a year at least 5 per cent of the demand from the public for services is in the official language of the linguistic minority population;

• (o) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD that it serves, the CSD has at least 200 and fewer than 500 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the number of those persons is equal to at least 5 per cent of the total population in the CSD, the office or facility provides any of the services referred to in subparagraphs (l)(i) to (vii) and those services are not available in both official languages at at least one office or facility of the institution in the CSD;

• (p) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD that it serves, the CSD has fewer than 200 persons of the English or French linguistic minority population, the number of those persons is equal to at least 30 per cent of the total population in the CSD and the office or facility provides any of the services referred to in subparagraphs (l)(i) to (vii);

• (q) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD that it serves, the number of persons of the English or French linguistic minority population in the CSD has not been determined by Statistics Canada under Method I on the basis of the census referred to in section 3, or cannot be disclosed by Statistics Canada for reasons of confidentiality, and at that office or facility over a year at least 5 per cent of the demand from the public for services is in the official language of that population; or

• (r) the office or facility is located outside a CMA and within a CSD, the number of persons of the English or French linguistic minority population in the service area of the office or facility cannot be determined by Statistics Canada under Method I on the basis of the census referred to in section 3 because of the nature of the service area or cannot be disclosed by Statistics Canada for reasons of confidentiality, and at that office or facility over a year at least 5 per cent of the demand from the public for services is in the official language of that population.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph 22(b) of the Act, there is significant demand for communications with and services from an office or facility of a federal institution in the official language that is not the official language of the English or French linguistic minority population where the office or facility is located in Canada and is not an office or facility at which there is significant demand in both official languages under subsection (1).

(3) For the purposes of paragraph 22(b) of the Act, there is significant demand for communications with and services from an office or facility of a federal institution in an official language where the office or facility is located outside Canada and at that office or facility over a year at least 5 per cent of the demand from the public for services is in that language.

(4) Subsections (1) to (3) do not apply in respect of

• (a) services described in paragraph 6(1)(a); or

• (b) an office or facility described in any of paragraphs 6(1)(b) to (e), subsection 6(2) or section 7.