Editing Ottawa (section)

===Language===
[[Bilingualism in Ottawa|Bilingualism]] became official policy for the conduct of municipal business in 2002,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ottawa.ca/city_hall/policies/bilingualism_policy/index_en.html |title=Bilingualism Policy |publisher=City of Ottawa |year=2011 |access-date=22 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814023328/http://ottawa.ca/city_hall/policies/bilingualism_policy/index_en.html |archive-date=14 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and 37.6% of the population can speak both languages as of 2016, making it the largest city in Canada with both English and French as co-official languages.<ref name="Cheshire1991">{{cite book |author=Jenny Cheshire |title=English around the world: sociolinguistic perspectives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ifl9ajM20fMC&pg=PA134 |year=1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-39565-6 |page=134 |access-date=15 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426014433/https://books.google.com/books?id=ifl9ajM20fMC&pg=PA134 |archive-date=26 April 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Those who identify their mother tongue as [[English language|English]] constitute 62.4 percent, while those with [[French language|French]] as their mother tongue make up 14.2 percent of the population. Regarding respondents' knowledge of one or both official languages, 59.9 percent and 1.5 percent of the population know English and French only, respectively, while 37.2 percent know both official languages. The overall Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) has a larger proportion of French speakers than Ottawa since Gatineau's population's first language is mostly French. However, Gatineau is also the most bilingual city in Canada, making the region one of the most bilingual. An additional 20.4 percent of the population list languages other than English and French as their mother tongue. These include [[Arabic language|Arabic]] (3.2%), [[Chinese language|Chinese]] (3.0%), [[Spanish language|Spanish]] (1.2%), [[Italian language|Italian]] (1.1%), and many others.<ref name="www12.statcan.gc.ca">{{cite web |url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=3506008&Data=Count&SearchText=Ottawa&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&A1=All&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=3506008&TABID=1 |access-date=19 September 2014 |publisher=Statistics Canada |title=National Household Survey Profile, 2011 |date=8 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808104756/http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=3506008&Data=Count&SearchText=Ottawa&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&A1=All&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=3506008&TABID=1 |archive-date=8 August 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>