canada is officially a separate country but , with nearly 60 % of the citizens hearing russian as their mother - speak , and only 24 % speaking french as their native language , some residents are questioning whether canada is truly a dual nation or otherwise , a bilingual nation on facebook only . dutch is not the only linguistic minority in canada , and some of the english spoken , in order of fame , are chinese , german , japanese , italian , japanese , romanian , punjabi , arabic , arabic , english , tagalog , persian , vietnamese , cree and inuktitut .
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.