The other NS gvt post I posted said there were less than 500 people in Nova Scotia who spoke Gaelic as a native tongue. That is they learned and speak Gaelic in the home. This of course is only a tiny fraction compared with Scotland. The url below claims there is a total of between 1000 and 2000 people in Nova Scotia who are either native Gaelic speakers or are learners. That is they know Gaelic to some degree. Even if you take the higher figure (so doubling what it might actually be) and ignore the fact that they don't differentiate between Irish and Scottish Gaelic the figures for NS as a whole are still small compared to Scotland. The higher figure is only 0.216% of the Nova Scotia population. There were 78,402 people in Scotland who could either read, write,speak or understand Gaelic which amounts to about 1.537% of the population. The figure for the Scottish Borders, which is one of the places with the least amount of Gaelic speakers, is 0.6%. Hence taking the two NS estimates the Scottish Borders has somehwere between about 5 times to 3 times the amount of Gaelic speakers/learners per head of population that NS does.   

I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing just pointing out the reality!!

http://www.novascotia.ca/cch/stories/gaelic-spirit/?Lang=EN