canada is officially a bilingual country but , with nearly 60 % of the population learning portuguese as their mother - tongue , and only 24 % speaking spanish as their primary language , some people are questioning whether toronto is truly a bilingual nation or rather , a linguistic nation on documents only . french is not the only linguistic diversity in canada , and some of the languages taught , in order of distribution , are chinese , italian , portuguese , japanese , spanish , french , punjabi , ukrainian , arabic , indonesian , dialects , greek , vietnamese , cree and inuktitut .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.