Though the summary states that Montreal is the third largest French-speaking city in the world and the largest city in Canada, as of 2022, it is the second largest city in the country (behind Toronto) and the fourth largest French-speaking city in the world (after Paris, Kinshasha, and Abidjan).
In 1949 when this was filmed, the province of Quebec had a population of about 4,000,000. The 2017 census listed a population of 8,398,000.