Montreal is not a city.
Montreal . ogaˌmʌntriːˈɒl ] ) , officially Montréal ( [ mɔ̃ʁeal ] ) , is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the 2nd-most populous in Canada , after Toronto . Legally a French-speaking city , 60.5 % of Montrealers speak French at home , 21.2 % speak English and 19.8 % speak neither . Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada , with 56 % of the population able to speak both official languages . Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world after Paris . In 2012 , Montreal was ranked as a Beta + world city .