It pays to be bilingual.
A Montrealer who speaks both English and French brings in an average 40 per cent more in income than a unilingual anglophone or francophone, according to figures from the 2021 census published this week by Statistics Canada.
Such income contrasts are not new, but the wage gap between unilingual and bilingual Canadians is widening, said Jack Jedwab, a researcher and president of the Association for Canadian Studies. Despite the potential for higher income, bilingualism is on the decline outside Quebec, the 2021 census showed.
In the rest of Canada, meanwhile, the level of English-French bilingualism fell to 9.5 per cent, from 9.8 per cent five years earlier. That’s a significant drop, Jedwab said“Something is clearly not working. Is it second-language instruction outside of Quebec or is it messaging? It’s important for the prime minister and for other leaders to step up and say it’s really important in this country to be bilingual.
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