The treatment of Scots Gaelic speakers in schools has resonance in Canada, in the treatment of First Nations children who were sent to residential schools, where their own language was forbidden, likely for roughly the same reasons as those of the teachers in Scotland. The fact that much physical and sexual abuse went on as well has raised this to a high-profile issue here, with massive lawsuits that threaten to bankrupt some of the churches which operated the schools. The cultural genocide issue tends to get shunted into the background.

Another interesting point in Canada is the success of Mary Jane Lamond, a singer who has made a career of popularizing songs in Cape Breton Scots Gaelic, despite the fact that she is not a native speaker, and learned the language in university. Apparently her pronunciation isn't all that good, in fact sometimes being incomprehensible to native speakers of the language in Scotland. (This from a review of one of her recordings, by Margaret Bennett in the Canadian Folk Music Bulletin.)