A growing number of new immigrants to Canada are bringing with them increasingly diverse languages, setting a record for the number of Canadians whose mother tongue is neither English nor French, new 2021 census data reveals.
One in four people in Canada have a mother tongue other than English or French, and about 12 per cent of people predominantly speak a non-official language at home as of last year.
The trend is mainly driven by immigration, and continued even during the pandemic when immigration slowed considerably due to COVID-19 health restrictions and related backlogs, Caron-Malenfant said.“After that, when you have children in Canada, often more and more English and French will be spoken at home,” he said.
“My parents would speak to my older brothers and myself in Chinese but often we would reply in English.” The trend was also true for French-speaking families outside of Quebec in most provinces, the census data shows. Cheung, who says she's reinvested in her Cantonese-speaking skills, says fading language proficiency can create intergenerational divides.
Statistics Canada noted a large increase in the growth of the number of Canadians who predominantly speak South Asian languages such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindi or Malayalam since the last census in 2016, a rise which was fuelled by immigration.
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