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Northwest Territories, and (d) in Nunavut, the Commissioner; ( lieutenant-gouverneur en conseil ) local time , in relation to any place, means the time observed in that place for the regulation of business hours; ( heure locale ) military shall be construed as relating to all or any part of the Canadian Forces; ( militaire ) month means a calendar month; ( mois ) oath includes a solemn affirmation or declaration when the context applies to any person by whom and to any case in which a solemn affirmation or declaration may be made instead of an oath, and in the same cases the expression sworn includes the expression “affirmed” or “declared”; ( serment ) Parliament means the Parliament of Canada; ( Parlement ) person , or any word or expression descriptive of a person, includes a corporation; ( personne ) proclamation means a proclamation under the Great Seal; ( proclamation ) province means a province of Canada, and includes Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut; ( province ) radio or radiocommunication means any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence of any nature by means of electromagnetic waves of frequencies lower than 3 000 GHz propagated in space without artificial guide; ( radiocommunication ou radio ) regular force means the component of the Canadian Forces that is referred to in the National Defence Act as the regular force; ( force régulière ) reserve force means the component of the Canadian Forces that is referred to in the National Defence Act as the reserve force; ( force de réserve ) security means sufficient security, and sureties means sufficient sureties, and when those words are used one person is sufficient therefor, unless otherwise expressly required; ( caution ou cautionnement ) standard time , except as otherwise provided by any proclamation of the Governor in Council that may be issued for the purposes of this definition in relation to any province or territory or any part thereof, means (a) in relation to the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland standard time, being three hours and thirty minutes behind Greenwich time, (b) in relation to the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, that part of the Province of Quebec lying east of the sixty-third meridian of west longitude, and that part of Nunavut lying east of the sixty-eighth meridian of west longitude, Atlantic standard time, being four hours behind Greenwich time, (c) in relation to that part of the Province of Quebec lying west of the sixty-third meridian of west longitude, that part of the Province of Ontario lying between the sixty-eighth and the ninetieth meridians of west longitude, Southampton Island and the islands adjacent to Southampton Island, and that part of Nunavut lying between the sixty-eighth and the eighty-fifth meridians of west longitude, eastern standard time, being five hours behind Greenwich time, (d) in relation to that part of the Province of Ontario lying west of the ninetieth meridian of west longitude, the Province of Manitoba, and that part of Nunavut, except Southampton Island and the islands adjacent to Southampton Island, lying between the eighty-fifth and the one hundred and second meridians of west longitude, central standard time, being six hours behind Greenwich time, (e) in relation to the Provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Northwest Territories and that part of Nunavut lying west of the one hundred and second meridian of west longitude, mountain standard time, being seven hours behind Greenwich time, (f) in relation to the Province of British Columbia, Pacific standard time, being eight hours behind Greenwich time, and (g) in relation to Yukon, Yukon standard time, being nine hours behind Greenwich time; ( heure normale ) statutory declaration means a solemn declaration made pursuant to section 41 of the Canada Evidence Act ; ( déclaration solennelle ) superior court means (a) in the Province of Newfo