Statistics Canada: Census Metropolitan Area

Toronto CMA Dept: That s the trend found in the latest census data released by Statistics Canada. Thanks to the influx of immigrants over the past decade, the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area stretching from Milton east to Ajax and north to Georgina is a region of diversity and duality, where many residents speak an immigrant language as well as English, according to The Star. In the Toronto CMA, 1.8 million or 32.2 per cent of the population speak a language other than English or French at home, up slightly from 2006, according to data from the 2011 census. That s the highest percentage anywhere in Canada, with Vancouver ranking a distant second and call it the new Canadian bilingualism, forged in the immigrant communities of the GTA, where nearly one-third of residents now speak a different mother tongue along with English. It s a trend shaping not only the GTA s linguistic make-up but also the nation s, as the story plays out similiarly in other major metropolitan centres. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.