canada is officially a bilingual country but , with nearly 60 % of the electorate speak english as their mother - tongue , and only 24 % spoke french as their first language , some communities are questioning why canada is truly a multicultural nation or rather , a bilingual nation on documents only . it is not the only significant minority in belgium , and some of the languages studied , in terms of popularity , are chinese , italian , portuguese , italian , spanish , portuguese , punjabi , greek , arabic , vietnamese , swahili , greek , vietnamese , punjabi and colloquial .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.