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Population by First Language (Ths.)
*Source: Statistics Canada, 1996 Census*

	TOR	CMA	ON	CA
English	1,281.8	2,562.7	7,694.6	16,890.6
French	28.2	52.4	479.3	6,636.7
Chinese	192.2	286.5	328.2	715.6
Italian	114.1	202.4	305.2	484.5
Portuguese	70.7	107.8	150.6	211.3
Spanish	54.9	72.8	100.9	212.9
Polish	48.1	79.6	139.6	213.4
Tamil	46.9	54.3	56.4	66.8
Tagalog (Pilipino)	40.0	58.3	67.9	133.2
Greek	37.8	49.2	64.9	121.2
German	25.6	47.5	159.4	450.1
Vietnamese	24.0	32.3	48.8	106.5
Punjabi	23.2	64.6	76.1	201.8
Persian (Farsi)	22.7	28.5	35.1	60.3
Arabic	22.1	35.5	69.2	148.6
Korean	18.9	24.4	29.7	54.5
Ukrainian	18.2	25.1	50.5	162.7
Russian	17.4	22.9	28.7	57.5
Hungarian	14.9	21.7	44.1	77.2
Gujarati	14.8	24.6	28.6	45.2
Urdu	14.4	24.6	29.5	39.8
Macedonian	11.4	16.4	19.0	19.3
Total Population	2,363.9	4,232.9	10,642.8	28,528.1

Now, this clearly shows that in Canada as a whole (the far-right column), French is the second most spoken language (there are ~6 million people in Quebec). Now, the first column on the left side contains the numbers for Toronto. Scanning, we see that in fact there are more Chinese, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Polish, Tamil, Philipino and Greek speaking people in Toronto than there are French.

As a portion of the population, Toronto is composed of ~1.1% French speaking people.