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 Demographics (languages) 

I started a new section here out of not wanting to disrupt the non-related debate about another part of the demographics section.

Anyway, is it me or does the following passage not make sense? ""Over six million people in Canada list a non-official language as their mother tongue.[204] Some of the most common non-official first languages include Chinese (mainly Cantonese; 1,012,065 first-language speakers), Italian (455,040), German (450,570), Punjabi (367,505) and Spanish (345,345).[205] and the languages most spoken at home by 68.3% and 22.3% of the population respectively""

Surely the 68.3% speak an official first language as their native tongue, do they? The only other alternative I can think of is that that bit is meant to read 'languages most spoken at home by the...of the population which does not speak an offficial language as their mother tongue. That sounds cumbersome, of course, but if that is correct, there needs to be some clarification there. I asked on this page because as a non-Canadian I honestly cannot make sense of the wording. If I knew what it was trying to say, I'd have changed it myself.

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