From: clamen@CS.CMU.EDU (Stewart Clamen)
Subject: Re: Access to French schools in CHQ etc.
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Reply-To: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:41:56 GMT
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In article <1992Aug13.143311.6980@spxtech.qc.ca> steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steven C. Potter) writes:

      Someone, I think it was Stewart, asked about schools and enrollment
      figures for French schools in CHQ.

      I got these from "Official language minority education rights in
      Canada: From instruction to management"; from O.C.O.L. :-

       (Table II-5, page 68)

       Public schools providing primary and secondary instruction to the
       minority, by province and territory, 1986

		  #     Enrlmnt.  Minority  Enrlmnt. Eligible  Eligible under
		public  (grades   popultn.    MMT*   enrlmnt.  s.23(1)(a)**
			 1-12)    6-17 yrs.  %(b/c)            %(b/e)

		  a       b         c         d         e        f

    B.C.          36     1,525     2,602     58.6%    14,815    10.3%
    Alberta       17     1,575     5,318     29.6%    21,093     7.5%
    Sask.         12       838     1,762     47.6%    10,722     7.8%
    Manitoba      34     5,211     6,681     78.0%    17,754    29.4%
    Ontario      351    77,412    70,462    109.9%   135,612    57.1%
    Quebec       374   111,178*** 86,946    127.9%   121,513    91.5%
    New Bruns.   154    46,086    46,350     99.4%    57,331    80.4%
    P.E.I.         2       497       706     70.4%     2,280    21.8%
    Nova Scotia   20     3,665     3,791     96.4%    10,516    34.8%
    Newf'land      2        68       267     25.5%     1,117     6.1%
    N.W.T & Ykn.   2        36       168     21.4%       674     5.3%

       *     MMT: Minority Mother Tongue
       **    s.23(1)(a) of Can. Charter of rights and Freedoms - this is
	     the "Mother Tongue" criteria for access to minority language
	     instruction. This is in force in every province EXCEPT Quebec.
       ***   The figure of enrollment for Quebec would be higher if s.23(a)(a)
	     were applied in Quebec, as in ROC.



Interesting numbers.  Thank you very much.  Could you please explain
to us the difference between the values in columns (b) and (e)?  For
everyone's education, here is Section 23(1) of the Constitution Act
(1982).

	23. (1) Citizens of Canada
		(a) whose  first language learned and still understood
		is that of the  English or  French linguistic minority
		population of the province in which they reside, or
		(b) who have received their primary school instruction
		in Canada in   English   or French  and reside  in   a
		province  where the language  in  which  they received
		that instruction is the language  of  the  English  or
		French linguistic minority population of the province,
	have the  right to  have  their  children receive  primary and
	secondary school   instruction   in  that   language in   that
	province.

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