How Much Does "Cajun" French Differ From Canadian French?

Well there is Quebec French and Quebec French. For that matter there is wide divergence among French dialects in France. As far as I can tell, there is a substantial difference between France and Quebec, but they are mainly intelligible. I don’t know much about Cajun, but Cajun is derived from Acadian (“Cajun” is a corruption of “Acadian”) which is New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The one fact I can affirm is that a French Canadian friend of mine (from near Trois Rivieres) was a graduate student at Dalhousie (in Halifax) and met a French speaking student from Northeastern Nova Scotia and they could not understand each other’s French… They spoke English.