canada is officially a multicultural nations but , with nearly 60 % of the population speaking english as their daughter - speech , and only 24 % fluent french as their first language , some countries are questions whether britain is truly a bilingual nation or indeed , a bilingual one on paper only . hindi is not the only linguistic minority in canada , and some of the language spoken , in order of popularity , are chinese , italian , german , norwegian , spanish , english , punjabi , japanese , arabic , dutch , tagalog , greek , cantonese , cree and inuktitut .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.