This thesis considers the right to education in mother tongue for Allophones in Canada from an international human rights law perspective. It seeks to determine whether the provincial governments' approach to language education rights for Allophones would amount to discrimination under international law. In order to address this question, language rights, the right to education in mother tongue and discrimination on the grounds of language are explored in international law. Then, the system of official bilingualism in Canada as the model to protect linguistic minority language rights and also language education rights in this country are discussed. With consideration to the significant role of mother tongue education in the survival of ling...