I'm going to ask Mr. Boulet to give more precise figures.
I would nevertheless like to give a clear idea of what constitutes a rural community. When the Federation of Canadian Municipalities talks about rural communities, it is talking about municipalities whose population is under 100,000 residents.
Of Quebec's 1,108 municipalities, only 10 have a population of more than 100,000. Some consider the remaining municipalities to be rural, but in the eyes of many people, Quebec municipalities with a population of 50,000, 75,000 or 80,000, are not necessarily rural communities.
Different people can interpret these figures in different ways. In Quebec, there are not even 100 municipalities with over 25,000 residents…