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Does the blue band look to be about 1 in 5 of the total in 2021? How about in 1951: has the percentage of Canadians with knowledge of both English and French increased or decreased over time? (If it’s challenging to do that: what about the format and structure of this data visualization makes it challenging?)

How much of the visual story is really about population growth, not language change? If Canada's population had stayed the same, what would the chart look like?�The chart shows national totals. Bilingualism in Canada is concentrated in certain places, such as Quebec, New Brunswick, and parts of Ontario. What regional patterns does a single national chart hide?

The title is "Canada's two official languages." What does that framing leave out? (e.g. Indigenous languages, other home languages, people that speak English or French and an additional language, etc.)

If you were redesigning this chart to show the change in bilingualism rates clearly, what would you change: the chart type, the axis, the categories, or the annotation?

�[source - StatCan] [slow reveal by Jenna Laib] [more slow reveal graphs at slowrevealgraphs.com]

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Citations

Data Visualization Source:�Statistics Canada @statcan_eng. “Happy Official Languages Day!” Instagram: September 10, 2026.

Accessed at: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdHHAtNoLf5/?stkn=YTNvaGZ4aHBuaHhv

Data Source:

Statistics Canada. "Census Program: Census of Population." Statistics Canada, last modified 2026-09-14.�Accessed at: www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm

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Slow Reveal by Jenna Laib

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Redesign the Graph

Follow-up assignment