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Re: How it should be

But not in the whole country. Only in one province and french is mostly spoken there. The rest isn't french speaking and can't do it. Even then bi lingual is not multi lingual. It isn't successful because of the amount of people who don't speak french and Canada is considered an english speaking country. Not French and English. Canada is officially a bilingual country but, with nearly 60% of the population speaking English as their mother-tongue, and only 24% speaking French as their first language, some people are questioning whether Canada is truly a bilingual nation or rather, a bilingual nation on paper only. French is not the only linguistic minority in Canada, and some of the languages spoken, in order of popularity, are Chinese, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Ukrainian, Arabic, Dutch, Tagalog, Greek, Vietnamese, Cree and Inuktitut (Statistics Canada, 1996). This paper shall focus on French, however, as not only is this official language a linguistic minority in this supposedly bilingual country, but also has, for quite some time, been at the centre of political conflict.
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