What is the difference between the estimates based on mother tongue and the new definition of “Francophone”?
The “mother tongue” category includes Francophones solely on the basis of French as one or more of the “languages learned at home in childhood and still understood” (at the time of the census). The IDF broadens the mother tongue indicator, and adds those persons who speak French, whose mother tongue is neither French nor English and for whom French is one of the languages spoken at home. To do this, it takes into account the knowledge of French and the language spoken at home.
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