ABSTRACT
Summary: This chapter examines the present state of educational policy with respect to three categories of minority groups in Canada: the ‘official’ minorities, that is the English in Quebec and the French in the other provinces; the native peoples — the Inuit and Indians; and the ‘non-official’ minorities — the various non-British and non-French immigrant groups. Although education of Canadian children other than those of the native peoples is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the ten provincial governments, present policies have been influenced by federal government policies on bilingualism and bi cultural ism. Against a background of overlapping and occasionally conflicting provincial and federal policies, minority group education has evolved in a rather fragmented way, lacking a clearly articulated set of common goals.
