This 4 month study visit to Canada was geared towards research on legislative, governmental, economic and community responses to issues around equality, language rights and cultural diversity. As a country with a Federal system of government, Canada has sought to protect linguistic and cultural rights in different ways at a national, regional and provincial level, often based on local circumstances of the languages concerned. For this reason, the practical implementation of language and cultural rights displays considerable local variation. The visit therefore, focused on language issues in two different provinces: Montréal (Quebec) and Nova Scotia / Cape Breton.