In 2021, French was the first language spoken by over 71 percent of the population of Montréal, Québec in Canada. 20.4 percent of the city's residents had English as their first language, 6.7 percent used both English and French as their primary language, and 1.6 percent of the population spoke another language. That same year, 46.4 percent of people living in the province of Québec could speak both English and French.

In 2021, most of the population of the city of Montreal, located in the Canadian province of Quebec, could speak both English and French. In fact, approximately 1.23 million men and 1.68 million women were bilingual. Of those who spoke only one of the official languages, the majority (1.43 million people) spoke only French. In addition, more than 68,400 people did not know either language, with women outnumbering men.

Data on the first official language spoken of the population of Canada and Canada outside Quebec, and of all provinces and territories, for Census years 1971 to 2016.

According to the Canadian government, approximately 2.54 million people residing in Montreal, in the province of Quebec, had French as their mother tongue in 2021. About 474,730 of them had English, the second official language, as their birth language. However, there were more people that year ( 522,255) whose mother tongue was an Indo-European language, such as German, Russian or Polish.

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The Quebec general election was held on October 3, 2022 in Canada, to elect the 125 members of the 43rd legislature to the Quebec National Assembly. When asked a month before the election, 18 percent of residents of Montreal and Laval (a suburb of Montreal) considered language and Bill 96 to be the main issue in the campaign. The issue was most important to those whose mother tongue was English (32 percent).

Bill 96 is an act relating to the official language of Quebec, which came into effect in 2022, and aims to make French the only official and common language in Quebec.

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