CA-K126Language & names

18% of Canadians are English–French bilingual

A bilingual STOP/ARRÊT sign in Rouleauville, photographed in 2020. Panneau STOP-ARRÊT à Rouleauville · WCL20 Lycée Louis Pasteur Justemila · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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In the 2021 Census, 18.0% of Canadians could speak both English and French; in Quebec, the rate was 46.4%. English is a minority language in Quebec, while French is a minority language in the other provinces and territories and in Canada as a whole.

Scope & context

Census rates of individual bilingualism, not institutional bilingualism (see CA-K051) or language use at work.

Sources behind this record

While English and French are still the main languages spoken in Canada, the country's linguistic diversity continues to grow ↗

Statistics Canada (The Daily)

2021 Census of Population release, 17 August 2022