Editing Regulation 17 (section)

==Reaction==
[[File:Manifestation d ecoliers dans les rues d Ottawa contre le Reglement 17, en fevrier 1916.jpg|thumb|Protest against Regulation 17 in the streets of Ottawa, February 1916]]
[[French Canadians]] reacted with outrage. Quebec journalist [[Henri Bourassa]] in November 1914 denounced the "Prussians of Ontario."  With the World War raging, this was a stinging insult.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Craig Brown and David Clark MacKenzie|title=Canada and the First World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqtjsLl292oC&pg=PA107|year=2005|publisher=U. of Toronto Press|page=107|isbn=9780802084453}}</ref>   The policy was strongly opposed by [[Franco-Ontarian]]s, particularly in the national capital of [[Ottawa]] where the [[École Guigues]] was at the centre of the [[Battle of the Hatpins]]. The newspaper ''[[Le Droit]]'', which is still published today as the province's only francophone daily newspaper, was established by the [[Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate]] in 1913 to oppose the ban. Faced with separate school boards' resistance and defiance of the new regulation, the Ministry of Education issued Regulation 18 in August 1913 to coerce the school boards' employees into compliance.<ref>Leclerc, Jacques. "[http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/amnord/ontario_reglement18.htm Circular of Instructions No. 18]", in ''L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde'', retrieved November 20, 2008</ref>

Ontario's Catholics were led by the Irish [[Michael Fallon (priest)|Bishop Fallon]], who united with the Protestants in opposing French schools.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Jack|last=Cecillon|title=Turbulent Times in the Diocese of London: Bishop Fallon and the French-Language Controversy, 1910–18|journal=Ontario History|date=December 1995|volume=87|issue=4|pages=369–395}}</ref> 

In 1915, the provincial government of Sir [[William Howard Hearst|William Hearst]] replaced Ottawa's elected separate school board with a government-appointed commission. After years of litigation from [[AFO (Canada)|ACFÉO]], however, the directive was never fully implemented.<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25040/25040-h/25040-h.htm The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bilingualism, by Hon. N. A. Belcourt K.C., P.C. Bilingualism Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club, at Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916]</ref>