Grey Bruce

Three women on stage holding a framed award certificate at the P2P conference.

Bilingualism is surging in Canada, but not necessarily in the country’s two official languages. Statistics Canada released the last batch of data from the 2011 census on Wednesday, this time focusing on about 200 languages that make up the linguistic portrait of the country. […] One in five Canadians — some 6.6 million people — reported speaking a language other than English or French at home; 191 distinct languages were among those identified as either a mother tongue or a home language.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1276375–census-2011-key-numbers-about-canada-s-language-diversity