The issue of power in Francophone minority communities in Canada is tightly bound to the linguistic regime. The regime provides the Francophone community with the power to act as a unified public in certain spheres of activity. But the regime also possesses the power to structure how official language communities organize and act. This article posits that the provincial and national linguistic regimes are aterritorial and that they structure the capacity of linguistic groups to mobilize on territorial issues. First, it proposes a critical review of territory in linguistic jurisprudence. It then analyzes territorial issues within the Francophone minority of New Brunswick to demonstrate how they challenge the notion of the Francophone community as a unified interest group based on language. These conflicts exceed the specific powers and policies of the linguistic regime and therefore bring to light publics and power relations that have, to date, been neglected by Francophone scholars.