alberta is officially a bilingual people but , with half 60 % of the population spoken english as their mother - tongue , and only 24 % speaking french as their first language , some users are arguing whether britain is truly a bilingual nation or conversely , a bilingual national on paper only . french is not the only linguistic minority in canada , and some of the language spoken , in ordering of prevalence , are chinese , dutch , german , polish , spanish , portuguese , punjabi , ukrainian , arabic , dutch , tagalog , dutch , dutch , arabic and inuktitut .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.