Although “bilingualism” (i.e. the official status of English and French) is widely accepted as one of the pillars of Canadian national identity, the number of Canadians reporting a mother tongue other than English or French is rising (Statistics Canada, 2019) and there is growing support for Indigenous languages (e.g. Indigenous Languages Act (2019)). The present paper examines the extent to which perceptions of languages in Canada are changing by exploring nationalist language ideologies in tweets during the run-up to the 2019 Canadian general election. A corpus of 123,058 tweets is examined using a discourse analytic approach to language ideology. Results show that language issues are not a focus of the 2019 general election and metalanguage is relatively infrequent in the dataset. Although evidence of different language ideologies emerges from the data, the overwhelming trend is one of English monolingualism, suggesting reasonable grounds for concern over Canada’s other languages.

尽管“双语”（即英语和法语的正式身份）已被广泛接受为加拿大国民身份认同的支柱之一，但报告使用英语或法语以外的母语的加拿大人数量正在上升（加拿大统计局，2019年）对土著语言的支持正在增加（例如，《土著语言法案》（2019年））。本文通过在2019年加拿大大选之前的推文中探索民族主义语言意识形态，研究了加拿大对语言观念的变化程度。使用话语分析方法对语言意识形态检查了123,058条推文的语料库。结果表明，语言问题并不是2019年大选的重点，并且元数据在数据集中相对较少见。