Canada, like the United States, leaves most of the logistics of education up to the individual provinces rather than having it determined by the national government. Yet as the United States has made certain exceptions for particular components of the educational system, such as for programs regarding learning disabled students, Canada has yet to implement the same sort of universal approach. As a result, most handicapped education programs lack effectiveness and fall short of their desired intentions. Canada is closer to the U.S. level of development than nations such as Namibia and China, yet there is still lots of room for improvement. IEPs are offered for students that truly need it, just like in the U.S., but the United States' northern neighbor has had greater difficulty identifying the students which need that extra assistance, and learning disabled students fail to reach their full potential because of this.
(Statistics Canada, 2006)
The Canadian government and institutions within the nation have made only limited efforts toward developing assistance to learning disabled students at the college level. These are slightly less than the United States and require significant attention. If Canada fails to find a more universal approach to their education system for disabled students, the entire framework will be rendered worthless due to inefficiency and ineffectiveness.