It has indeed been common practice to use English for the Canadian locality and French for the Canadian (Quebec) locality. I haven't been able to find a forum thread in which this was "established", but that's how it's been done as long as I can remember.

Sorry Jimmy, I didn't mean to offend.
I know Wikipedia isn't always riight, but I believed that the following was true:

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Canada's two official languages are English and French. Official bilingualism is defined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Official Languages Act, and Official Language Regulations; it is applied by the Commissioner of Official Languages.

Scandinavian releases are somewhat different, since each locality is a different country, and each country only has one official language on the cover. If - for example - both Swedish and Norwegian were official languages in Sweden, I would expect Swedish locality titles to have both overviews (if they were on the back cover, that is).

Quoting Kulju:

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Finland is bilingual, finnish and swedish    

Is that more or less bilingual than Canada? 

If these countries were truly bilingual I don't think anyone would object to both languages in the overview. But since they are not, we have what we have.

The contribution in question was mine for a Canadian release of The Mechanic I believe?

As T!M said, it's common practice to use the English overview for Canada releases, and the French overview for Canada (Quebec) releases. I too, after your no vote (and I meant to pm you before the contribution went through, my apologies for not doing so), went to look for the thread that this was established in, but couldn't find one. I was only able to find numerous threads discussing that that's how it was done (in which I took part in almost all of them). So even though I wasn't able to find "the" thread (if it exists), it's how it's always seemingly been done, and seems to be vastly agreed on by those who own the profiles. There are other differences as well between the two locality profiles (such as mentioned already, the rating) so I've always entered one one way, and the other, the other way (for lack of a better explanation  ).

I've also never had a single contribution declined for removing the French overview from a Canadian release, so this is how I've continued to do it over the years.

And as Jimmy stated, by law, I believe that only New Brunswick (and I was under the impression that all of Quebec as well) is billingual, and since they don't have their own specific releases (like Quebec does) and are part of the greater Canadian locality releases, everything from the Canadian locality just gets the English overview.

This is always how I've understood it anyway.

As for personal preference, I'd really like to not have the French overview attached to Canadian locality releases. It just seems to, I don't know, clutter things. Looks too long, too busy. This isn't a stance on the language, just a stance on the aesthetics of how it looks in Profiler (so please no one take offense!  ).

If I hear differently, I'll of course adhere to that and enter the french overview as it's written along with the English... I'll just remove it locally. 

Quoting KinoNiki:

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If these countries were truly bilingual I don't think anyone would object to both languages in the overview.

How bilingual is "truly bilingual"? Seems to me that either they are bilingual or they are not.

@Kulju: If a Finnish release has Finnish and Swedish overview, why would one want to deny the Swedish speaking part of the people an overview in their language?

@Merrick: Yes, it was your contribution that sparked my curiosity. Not The Mechanic, though. Defendor, I think.

Actually I'm fine personally with just the English overview. I was just curious as to where this decision came from, as I didn't think it had any support in the rules.

All of our cereal boxes/ candy wrappers.. instructions on a small medicine container.. etc etc etc etc is in English and French ..

I live in British Columbia.. and it is very frustraing to hear that the French get mad when after we singthe entire National Anthem (in English)  at our Sports Events  that we don't turn around and sing it again in French  but we sure hear about it the next day ....

According to the last census, about 55,000 people in BC can speak French. About 1350 speak only French. and that is in a Province of 4.6 million people .....

The top 10 languages spoken are now (according to the 2001 Census): English, Chinese (including Cantonese and Mandarin), Punjabi, German, French, Tagalog, Spanish, Italian, Korean, and Dutch.

Ok Jimmy, I'll take your word for it. In that case it makes sense to only use Enlish for Canadian overviews.
(Not sure I'd say the same thing for Finnish / Swedish, but I guess that's best left to the Finns...  )