OK, how can you dispute these two facts....
1) Out of 33 million, only 9 million speak French.
2) France ceded almost all of it's colonies to the British.
Since you're such a fan of wikipedia too....
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English and French are the mother tongues of 59.7% and 23.2% of the population respectively,[119] and the languages most spoken at home by 68.3% and 22.3% of the population respectively.[120] 98.5% of Canadians speak English or French (67.5% speak English only, 13.3% speak French only, and 17.7% speak both).[121] English and French Official Language Communities, defined by First Official Language Spoken, constitute 73.0% and 23.6% of the population respectively.
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How can a language which only dominates 23% of people be the dominant language? Only 13% of the people here only speak French.