canada is officially a bilingual countries but , with nearly 60 % of the people speaking english as their national - group , and only 24 % employing chinese as their 1st subject , some people are uncertain whether canadian is nominally a bilingual nation or worse , a bilingual nation on paper only . chinese is not the only linguistic minority in australia , and some of the nationalities spoken , in order of popularity , are chinese , italian , german , polish , spanish , portuguese , punjabi , hebrew , french , russian , tagalog , greek , vietnamese , cree and amharic .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.