579. For the municipal fiscal periods 1980, 1981 and 1982, the Government or such minister as it may designate shall pay a sufficient sum to each municipal corporation to bring its net transfer of fiscal resources up to $10 per inhabitant for each of those fiscal periods, if such net transfer to it by the application of this Act is less than that amount.
The Minister shall fix that sum in each case.
For the purposes of this section, the population of the territory of a municipal corporation is that established on the basis of the results of the census of the population of Canada carried out in 1976 by Statistics Canada in accordance with the Statistics Act (Statutes of Canada, 1970-71-72, c. 15).
1979, c. 72, s. 579; 1980, c. 34, s. 58.