MONTREAL—While some politicians and Quebec nationalists fretted in 2017 over the perception Montreal has become too bilingual, new data from the 2016 census reveal the city is truly Canada’s trilingual metropolis. Census numbers from 2016 reveal Montreal is by far the country’s most trilingual city. The data reveal 42 per cent of immigrants who arrived in Montreal between 2011 and 2016 were bilingual and more than one-third of all immigrants were trilingual. Marta Schade, a funeral arranger in Montreal, is fluent in English, French and German, and also knows some Spanish. She said she isn’t surprised Montreal is Canada’s most trilingual city.

Source: thestar December 29, 2017 22:07 UTC