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Originally Posted by CANAUS
His statistic referred to the percentage of people whose primary language was not English (e.g. someone could have learnt Italian as a first language but still learn English later on in life), not the percentage of people who do not speak English (which is much lower than the percentage originally mentioned). The Toronto area has the highest percentage of residents whose primary language is not English or French (but of course most still know English!!). Vancouver is a distant second.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/10/...ut_not_necessarily_in_englishfrench.html |
Montreal is still the most impressive city in Canada by a longshot when it comes to overall language skills (bilingual, trilingual, multilingual, etc.). Ottawa-Gatineau is probably second.
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