canada is ostensibly a bilingual republic but , with nearly 60 % of the population having english as their home - spoken , and only 24 % speaking french as their official tongue , some people are questioning whether canada is truly a bilingual nation or rather , a neutral state on paper only . french is not the only linguistic diversity in vancouver , and some of the languages spoken , in order of popular , are chinese , arabic , german , dutch , spanish , portuguese , punjabi , spanish , arabic , dutch , tagalog , greek , vietnamese , cree and pashto .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.