Editing Charter of the French Language (section)

===Language of instruction===
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{{Anchor|Language of instruction}}The language of instruction from kindergarten to secondary school is French. (The instruction language is the language in which the classes are taught. Learning of English as a second language is mandatory for all children attending French school beginning in elementary school.)

Articles 87, 88 and 89 provide for the use of [[Amerindian languages|Indigenous languages]] and [[Inuktitut]] as the language of instruction. The rate of introduction of French and English as languages of instruction is left to school committees and parents' committees.<ref name="Title I - Chapter VIII">Charter of the French Language, [http://www.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/english/charter/title1chapter8.html Title I – Chapter VIII] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061129164447/http://www.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/english/charter/title1chapter8.html |date=November 29, 2006 }}</ref>

At the request of parents, the following may receive instruction in English:

# a child whose father or mother is a Canadian citizen and received elementary instruction in English anywhere in Canada, provided that that instruction constitutes the major part of the elementary instruction he or she received in Canada;
# a child whose father or mother is a Canadian citizen and who has received or is receiving elementary or secondary instruction in English in Canada, and the brothers and sisters of that child, provided that that instruction constitutes the major part of the elementary or secondary instruction received by the child in Canada.

The original 1977 ''Charter'' provided for the English instruction not on the basis of a parent having received his instruction in English in ''Canada'', but in ''Quebec'' only. This came to be amended following the adoption of the ''[[Constitution Act 1982]]'', which defined the educational right of French and English minorities in all provinces under [[Section Twenty-three of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms|section 23]] of the [[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]].