"Canada is Multicultural in a Bilingual Framework"

This phrase was said by the former Commissioner of Official Languages, Raymond Théberge. In fact, if we analyze the promotion of official bilingualism by the government, we notice that it is not understood as a component of a new Canadian identity. Instead, the reasoning behind the official languages policy obeys to the need to comply with the economic rights of the domestic immigrant population, specifically the national, or autochthonous, linguistic minorities. But there is an increasing international immigrants', or allochthonous, attraction to official bilingualism, and it is expressed in the following data from Statistics Canada: Almost 20% of French Immersion students in Canada outside Quebec are speakers of a Heritage Language at home. In Vancouver, it is 33.2%. Also, some specific points of concentration of trilingual population have been identified in BC outside Vancouver, as nearby Abbottsford - Mission (27%). And similar concentrations have been detected in other regions, such as Ontario and Alberta. This is the phenomenon  we want to impart and celebrate!