The Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CIRLM) was established in 2002 through a trust fund created by the government of Canada. Located on the campus of the Université de Moncton, the CIRLM is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to promote research and data collection on issues that are vital to Canada's official language communities, i.e. the Anglophones in Quebec and the Francophones outside of Quebec.