A speech in Canada's Parliament by a Canadian MP in his mother tongue Kannada has gone viral on social media, earning him praise for his love of his native language.

Chandra Arya, a Member of Parliament from Nepean, hails from Dwaralu, a small village in Sira Taluk of Tumakuru district in Karnataka. "I spoke in my mother tongue (first language) Kannada in the Canadian parliament. This beautiful language has (a) long history and is spoken by about 50 million people. This is the first time Kannada is spoken in any parliament in the world outside of India," Arya has tweeted with a minute-long video of his speech in Kannada. His speech received a standing ovation from some of his Parliament colleagues.