All federal services must be available where required in either language. Federal, Quebec and Manitoba courts have always had to be bilingual. New Brunswick is now constitutionally bilingual. Criminal justice must now be bilingual wherever the facilities exist or can be made available. Some are rich, others less well off.
Federalism makes possible a pooling of financial resources and reduction of such disparities.
Yet there are always areas of dispute, new adjustments required, and special problems to be met. Federal-provincial conferences, bringing together all the heads of government, are fairly new in our history. But they are now very frequent, and a major force in evolving new solutions. Historically, Canada is a nation founded by the British and the French. Yet it is now a great amalgam of many peoples.