Editing Languages of Canada (section)

===Use of English===
{{Further|Canadian English}}
In 2011, just under 21.5&nbsp;million Canadians, representing 65% of the population, spoke English most of the time at home, while 58% declared it their mother language.<ref name="pop1" /> English is the major language everywhere in Canada except [[Quebec]] and [[Nunavut]], and most Canadians (85%) can speak English.<ref name="www12.statcan.gc.ca">{{Cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/lang/Pages/highlight.cfm?TabID=1&Lang=E&Asc=1&PRCode=01&OrderBy=999&View=1&Age=1&tableID=402&queryID=1|title=Population by knowledge of official languages, age groups (total), 2011 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories|access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref> While English is not the preferred language in Quebec, 36.1% of [[Québécois people|Québécois]] can speak English.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.spl.gouv.qc.ca/documentation/rapportssondagesstatistiques/dynamiquedeslangues/tableaux |title=La dynamique des langues en quelques chiffres : Tableaux |access-date=2014-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207100029/http://www.spl.gouv.qc.ca/documentation/rapportssondagesstatistiques/dynamiquedeslangues/tableaux// |archive-date=2016-12-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Nationally, [[French language|Francophones]] are five times more likely to speak English than Anglophones are to speak French – 44% and 9% respectively.<ref>Marmen, Louise and Corbeil, Jean-Pierre, "New Canadian Perspectives, Languages in Canada 2001 Census," Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication, Statistics Canada Cat. No. Ch3-2/8-2004, (Canadian Heritage, 2004), pg. 60.</ref> Only 3.2% of Canada's English-speaking population resides in Quebec—mostly in Montreal.{{refn|group="nb"|18,858,908 Canadians identify their mother tongue as English. 599,230 Québécois identify their mother tongue as English and of that 309,885 live in Montreal.<ref name="Navigator">{{Cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/map-carte/index-eng.cfm|title=Census Data Navigator|access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref>}}

In 2011, 28.4&nbsp;million Canadians had knowledge of English while only 21.6&nbsp;million Canadians spoke it most often at home.<ref name="Navigator"/><ref>1931–1991: Statistics Canada, The 1997 Canada Year Book, "3.14 Official Language Knowledge," Catalogue No. 11-402XPE/1997.<br />
1996: Statistics Canada. Population by Knowledge of Official Languages (20% sample data), (table), 1996 Census of Population (Provinces, Census Divisions, Municipalities) (database), Using E-STAT (distributor). [https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/lang/Pages/highlight.cfm?TabID=1&Lang=E&Asc=1&PRCode=01&OrderBy=999&View=1&Age=1&tableID=402&queryID=1] (accessed: June 28, 2010).<br />
2001: Statistics Canada. Languages, Mobility and Migration, 2001 – Provinces and Territories in Canada (table), 2001 Census of Population (Provinces, Census Divisions, Municipalities) (database), Using E-STAT (distributor). [https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/lang/Pages/highlight.cfm?TabID=1&Lang=E&Asc=1&PRCode=01&OrderBy=999&View=1&Age=1&tableID=402&queryID=1] (accessed: June 28, 2010)<br />
2006: Statistics Canada. Languages, Mobility and Migration, 2006 – Provinces and Territories in Canada (table), 2006 Census of Population (Provinces, Census Divisions, Municipalities) (database), Using E-STAT (distributor). [https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/lang/Pages/highlight.cfm?TabID=1&Lang=E&Asc=1&PRCode=01&OrderBy=999&View=1&Age=1&tableID=402&queryID=1] (accessed: June 28, 2010).</ref>