canada is currently a bilingual community but , with nearly 60 % of the population hearing english as their official - tongue , and only 24 % speaking arabic as their first language , some residents are questioning whether canada is actually a language nation or better , a bilingual people on parchment only . italian is not the only linguistic region in canada , and some of the languages spoken , in order of popular , are china , italian , german , polish , irish , japanese , japanese , ukrainian , arabic , japanese , cebuano , polish , chinese , cree and inuktitut .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.