Do most people in CANADA speak French,if not how many do.?

[phillip w]

I herd that canada may be divided.

[Mike K]

Hello,

No; 30% of the population are Francophone and most live in Quebec and Northern New Brunswick.

Stats:

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/highlight/LanguageComposition/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo=PR&View=1a&Table=1a&StartRec=1 &Sort=2&B1=Counts&B2=Both

This separation of Quebec issue has been going on for 4 decades but when referendoms came up on separation which has been toned down to sovreignty association, the motion has been defeated 2 or 3 times though very narrowly in one case.
This issue usually comes up when Quebecers, pissed off with a particular federal government, vote in the Partie Quebecoise, the separatists and shake the country up a bit.
Right now there is a federalist party in power in Quebec.

That said, Quebec is quitw autonomous in many ways. They have there own law reharding language laws, control their own immigration and their provincial laws are more on the Napoleonic code than English common law.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

[Americo G]

Well, people in Quebec is mostly francophone. In other canadian provinces, people speak english. According to the CIA World Factbook 23.2% of Canadians speak French, 59.3% speak English, and 17.5% speak other languages.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ca.html

[psychicsoda]

I lived in in Canada for 10 years, and in that time I only met 2 people that spoke French.