Statistics Canada says the country continues to be more urbanized as the population of census metropolitan areas rose to 27 million. Permanent and temporary immigration is the driver behind this. Ontario is home to the fastest growing CMAs. There are 37 census metropolitan areas in Canada tracked by Statistics Canada. Saskatoon’s cma registered a population of 330,674 as of July 1st, 2019. Regina’s was 261,684. 18 of the CMAs have populations higher than Saskatoon’s.