What is Canadian French?
{{See|List of countries by French-speaking population}} '''Canadian French''' ({{lang-fr|français canadien}}) includes the varieties of the [[French language]] spoken in [[Canada]]. In the 2011 [[census]] about 10 [[million]] people said they could speak French in a conversation.<ref name=SC>{{cite web |url=http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-314-x/98-314-x2011003_1-eng.cfm |title=French and the ''francophonie'' in Canada |publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=22 February 2015 |archive-date=11 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311103923/http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-314-x/98-314-x2011003_1-eng.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref> French is the [[mother tongue]] of about 7.3 million Canadians.<ref name=SC/> 7.9 million said they spoke French at home.<ref name=SC/> French is the only [[official language]] of [[Quebec]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.slmc.uottawa.ca/?q=leg_official_language_act_1974 |title=Official Language Act (1974) |publisher=University of Ottawa |access-date=22 February 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> But [[government]] services are also conducted in [[English language|English]] (and French in the rest of English-speaking Canada).<ref name=SC/> [[Manitoba]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Bilingualism in Manitoba|url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/fls-slf/bilingual.html|work=www.gov.mb.ca|publisher=Manitoba government|access-date=27 June 2016}}</ref> and [[New Brunswick]]<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ|url=http://officiallanguages.nb.ca/faq|work=officiallanguages.nb.ca|publisher=Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick|access-date=27 June 2016|archive-date=23 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823014833/http://officiallanguages.nb.ca/faq|url-status=dead}}</ref> are the only [[provinces]] in Canada that are officially [[bilingual]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://french.lovetoknow.com/Where_in_Canada_do_They_Speak_French |title=Where in Canada do They Spea