A couple of things you missed, Evan.

If you live in Quebec and build a web site, if you have an english site, you must also reproduce that site in French.

This is called redundancy, which in Canada, is considered a good and valuable thing.

Also, if in Quebec, your english language pages must use a font size that is half the size of the French web site (you may seen reference to this on 60 minutes).

In the rest of Canada, you are allowed to use English only with impunity, as long as you don't impune anyone.

The Federal Government makes all web site bilingual, that is, incomprehensible in both languages with special attention to the language least in use in any area.

By the way, most of the French people I know come from Saskatchewan.
(And who knows what Saskatchewan means?)

>>I have noticed alot of the Canadian web sites listed here are bilingual? Could a kind Canadian answer a couple of questions for me.
>>What parts of Canada speak French and Why?
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>Canada is officially bi-lingual. English and French. If you speak one official language you must learn the other in school up to a certain grade (11?). Federal government works in both languages. Federal government services are required by law to be offered in both languages.
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>Quebec is French, with parts of New Brunswick and some small communities elsewhere. My guess is that the average Quebecer speaks better English and than the average English Canadian speaks French. Also the average English Canadian speaks French as well as the average American speaks Spanish, most likely.
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>Why does Quebec speak French? Both England and France colonized the northern part of North America (in the same way the Spanish and English did with the southern part). English speaking people managed to conquer the French (I forget exactly how and why). After many years of persecuting them, Canada was formed with he concept of allowing the two cultures an equal share in governing the country.