There is no credible statistic. Again, I'm sorry to repeat myself, but there's no credible statistic. What we have traditionally done is go by the one-to-ten rule in comparing with American numbers. By that rule of thumb, there are 350,000 profoundly deaf Canadians using sign language, but there are an additional 2.95 million people who are hard of hearing and don't rely on sign language. They're usually lumped together with us, but they are disabled and we are not. We're a minority group; they're a disability group. Do you understand?
On March 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.