French Now A 4th Language

French is now a 3rd, 4th or 5th language in a majority of Western provinces, according to new Statistics Canada data. Census research showed for the first time since passage of the 1969 Official Languages Act, more Westerners speak Punjabi, Cantonese or Tagalog than French: “We have to be smart.”

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