quebec is officially a bilingual state but , with practically 60 % of the residents speaking english as their mother - tongue , and only 24 % having french as their first tongue , some people are questioning whether canada is properly a french nation or simply , a single nation on text only . french is not the only significant diversity in canadian , and some of the ones spoken , in ordered of popularity , are chinese , indonesian , germany , polish , spanish , dutch , punjabi , ukrainian , arabic , dutch , cebuano , french , vietnamese , cree and cree .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.