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CP Video Watch: Census Period

Languages Other Than English Dept: Census video: Rescuing a native language CP Video Watch, according to Globe and Mail. For example, the new data suggest the number of Canadians who speak neither English nor French at home grew by just 100,000 between 2006 and 2011. During that period, Canada welcomed more than 1.2 million immigrants, the vast majority of whom spoke languages other than English or French. At the same time, the number of new bilinguals, people who said they speak English or French as well as another language at home, grew by more than a million, twice as much as in the previous census period. It is also surprising that the proportion of Canadians whose mother tongue is English held steady, since it had been in consistent decline, Mr. Corbeil said and census video: Keeping French alive outside Quebec Instructor Nathan Brinklow writes in Mohawk as he teaches a Adult Language Immersion Program on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario, on October 11, 2012 The Canadian Press video Census video: The many languages of Canada (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.