canada is officially a single country but , with some 60 % of the voters speaking english as their mother - tongue , and only 24 % reading hindi as their third language , some people are questioning whether canada is indeed a mixed republic or better , a bilingual country on paper only . chinese is not the only linguistic minority in canada , and some of the languages spoken , in order of popularity , are chinese , french , german , danish , spanish , russian , romanian , ukrainian , arabic , persian , afrikaans , greek , vietnamese , cree and inuktitut .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.