canada is officially a bilingual country but , with nearly 60 % of the population spoke english as their first - language , and only 24 % employing ukrainian as their mother language , some citizens are debate which this is properly a bilingual nation or rather , a bilingual nations on papers only . french is not the only cultural minority in canada , and some of the dialects spoken , in ordering of popularity , are chinese , italian , german , welsh , russian , portuguese , swedish , arabic , arabic , dutch , tagalog , greek , french , cree and inuktitut .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.