French and English in Canada

[Stranger in a strange land]

I've been travelling in Canada quite a bit over the past couple of years, and it's led me to wonder how prevalent bilingualism actually is. I've been to Alberta and BC, where although much of the signage is bilignual, as mandated by law, but where I hear nothing but Enlgish and only see English printed media. On the other hand, I've had trouble making myself understood in Montreal. I've been to Ottawa, which does actually seem to be bilingual. While I was there, I hung out mostly with Chinese Canadians, some of whom seem to have trouble stammering out a sentence in either language.

So I'm wondering what % of Canadians speak:
Only English
Only French
English and another language (not French)
French and another language (not English)
Are totally bilingual
can't speak either

If there's a site that has these stats, I'd appreciate a link. Thanks in advance!

[bgwah]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken_languages_of_Canada

[dead0man]

I'll pull the numbers out for you Stranger
English-67.5%
French-21.5%
Both-17.5%

Also intersting:
Chinese*-2.6%
Punjab-1.9%


40% of Qubecers can carry a conversation in English, but only 10% of non-Qubecers can do so in French.
*mostly Cantonese

[Stranger in a strange land]

40% of Qubecers can carry a conversation in English, but only 10% of non-Qubecers can do so in French.

interesting, but about what I expected.

[Hash]

40% of Qubecers can carry a conversation in English, but only 10% of non-Qubecers can do so in French.

Expected but explainable.

[Хahar 🤔]

Threadjack:

Has there ever been a monolingual leader of a party with muliple seats in Parliament?

[Hash]

Threadjack:

Has there ever been a monolingual leader of a party with muliple seats in Parliament?

Preston Manning, Reform; IIRC.

[Хahar 🤔]

Threadjack:

Has there ever been a monolingual leader of a party with muliple seats in Parliament?

Preston Manning, Reform; IIRC.

In that case, it's no wonder Reform/Reform Alliance never won a seat in Québec. (Thanks for that knowledge in cool map format, Earl.)

[Hash]

Threadjack:

Has there ever been a monolingual leader of a party with muliple seats in Parliament?

Preston Manning, Reform; IIRC.

In that case, it's no wonder Reform/Reform Alliance never won a seat in Québec. (Thanks for that knowledge in cool map format, Earl.)

Unrelated, but one of the tenants in my former house, who was a Minister in the Bourassa II government and PLQ MNA (resigned for corruption, IIRC) ran in Charlesbourg-Jacques-Cartier as a Canadian Alliance candidate in 2000. His name was Gerard Latulippe, a lawyer who didn't know the law very much.

He got 15.4%. Too bad he didn't get less, he's a dirty (dirty is literal, too) opportunist

[Хahar 🤔]

Threadjack:

Has there ever been a monolingual leader of a party with muliple seats in Parliament?

Preston Manning, Reform; IIRC.

In that case, it's no wonder Reform/Reform Alliance never won a seat in Québec. (Thanks for that knowledge in cool map format, Earl.)

Unrelated, but one of the tenants in my former house, who was a Minister in the Bourassa II government and PLQ MNA (resigned for corruption, IIRC) ran in Charlesbourg-Jacques-Cartier as a Canadian Alliance candidate in 2000. His name was Gerard Latulippe, a lawyer who didn't know the law very much.

He got 15.4%. Too bad he didn't get less, he's a dirty (dirty is literal, too) opportunist

Liberal -> Alliance?

That is opportunistic.

[ottermax]

When I visit BC, there are more French speakers than in America, but by far there are way more Chinese and Indian language speakers. In fact I believe that English speakers are a minority in Vancouver, but I may be wrong. I know that Whites are a minority in Vancouver.

Ottawa is really bilingual, that's why it's the capital. The university there is the only bilingual university in Canada (maybe the only French-English in the world).

[Verily]

Threadjack:

Has there ever been a monolingual leader of a party with muliple seats in Parliament?

Preston Manning, Reform; IIRC.

In that case, it's no wonder Reform/Reform Alliance never won a seat in Québec. (Thanks for that knowledge in cool map format, Earl.)

Unrelated, but one of the tenants in my former house, who was a Minister in the Bourassa II government and PLQ MNA (resigned for corruption, IIRC) ran in Charlesbourg-Jacques-Cartier as a Canadian Alliance candidate in 2000. His name was Gerard Latulippe, a lawyer who didn't know the law very much.

He got 15.4%. Too bad he didn't get less, he's a dirty (dirty is literal, too) opportunist

Liberal -> Alliance?

That is opportunistic.

Until the ADQ came along (and after the UN collapsed), the PLQ was the chief right-wing party for everyone but really hardcore separatists in addition to being the party of left-wing and centrist federalists. PLQ -> Alliance is not remotely surprising.

[Хahar 🤔]

Threadjack:

Has there ever been a monolingual leader of a party with muliple seats in Parliament?

Preston Manning, Reform; IIRC.

In that case, it's no wonder Reform/Reform Alliance never won a seat in Québec. (Thanks for that knowledge in cool map format, Earl.)

Unrelated, but one of the tenants in my former house, who was a Minister in the Bourassa II government and PLQ MNA (resigned for corruption, IIRC) ran in Charlesbourg-Jacques-Cartier as a Canadian Alliance candidate in 2000. His name was Gerard Latulippe, a lawyer who didn't know the law very much.

He got 15.4%. Too bad he didn't get less, he's a dirty (dirty is literal, too) opportunist

Liberal -> Alliance?

That is opportunistic.

Until the ADQ came along (and after the UN collapsed), the PLQ was the chief right-wing party for everyone but really hardcore separatists in addition to being the party of left-wing and centrist federalists. PLQ -> Alliance is not remotely surprising.

But wasn't the Alliance equally a nonfactor?

[Hash]

His switch from Liberal to Alliance is not the most surprising. The guy is an opportunist who tries to be in whatever thing is powerful or important (that said, he doesn't do that smartly). He also was the Quebec delegate in Belgium and Mexico, and apparently he's now a specialist of North Africa (judging my his knowledge and style, he doesn't know sh**t about North Africa. But it makes him seem powerful).