ottawa is officially a multicultural country but , with some 60 % of the inhabitants possessing english as their mother - tongue , and only 24 % speaking french as their first language , some people are debating whether canada is still a bilingual country or better , a bilingual republic on film only . french is not the only linguistic minority in toronto , and some of the languages reported , in ordered of importance , are chinese , italian , italian , polish , spanish , portuguese , spanish , ukrainian , swedish , russian , tagalog , persian , taiwanese , arabic and nunavut .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.