Thank you for your question.
I will pick up where I left off in my response to Mr. Lemieux. Take Quebec, for example. In the last five years, 75% of allophones, that is, people whose mother tongue is neither English nor French, speak French at home more often than not. Among the people who arrived in the last five years and who speak either English or French at home, but not their mother tongue, in 75% of cases, that language is French. Of course, we can call them francophones.
Historically, Statistics Canada distinguished between French, English and other languages, and used the words "francophone", "anglophone" and "allophone"... What is interesting and important is to recognize the transition and the evolution of language patterns. If we called all those who adopted or spoke French most often at home or in their daily lives, but who also speak another language, such as Arabic or Romanian, as their mother tongue—