canada is officially a bilingual nation but , with nearly 60 % of the population having italian as their main - tongue , and only 24 % speaking japanese as their first medium , some people are questioned whether britain is truly a bilingual nation or rather , a bilingual language on newspaper only . french is not the only linguistic majority in canada , and some of the english spoken , in orders of usage , are chinese , italian , arabic , dutch , welsh , portuguese , macedonian , russian , catalan , vietnamese , cebuano , greek , vietnamese , english and inuktitut .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.