Editing Regulation 17 (section)

==Repeal and legacy==
The regulation was eventually repealed in 1927 by the government of [[Howard Ferguson]] following the recommendations of the Merchant-Scott-Côté report.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Marilyn|last=Barber|title=The Ontario Bilingual Schools Issue: Sources of Conflict |journal=Canadian Historical Review|date=September 1966|volume=47|issue=3|pages=227–248|doi=10.3138/chr-047-03-02|s2cid=161879218 }}</ref><ref>Jack D. Cecillon, ''Prayers, Petitions, and Protests: The Catholic Church and the Ontario Schools Crisis in the Windsor Border Region, 1910-1928'' (2013)</ref><ref name="slmc" /> Ferguson was an opponent of [[bilingualism]], but repealed the law because he needed to form a political alliance with Quebec premier [[Louis-Alexandre Taschereau]] against the [[Government of Canada|federal government]]. The Conservative government reluctantly recognized bilingual schools, but the directive worsened relations between Ontario and Quebec for many years and is still keenly remembered by the French-speaking minority of Ontario.

Despite the repeal of Regulation 17, however, French-language schools in Ontario were not officially recognized under the provincial ''Education Act'' until 1969, with the first French-language high schools in the province officially opening in late 1969 and 1970. <ref> {{cite web |url= https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/pages/our-stories/exhibits/snapshots-of-franco-ontarian-heritage/language-rights-and-education|title= Throughout Ontario, Why|author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Ontario Heritage Trust |publisher= |access-date=June 24, 2022 |quote=}} </ref> Students were allowed to be taught in French, while still under the English school board system. Francophones were finally allowed to have their own school boards by the province under ''Act 121'' and ''Act 122'', which allowed them to elect trustees to these public (non-denominational) school boards; Catholic French-language school boards would follow a few years after. <ref>  {{cite web |url= https://ecolescatholiquesontario.ca/en/history/|title=History |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= ecolescatholiquesontario.ca |publisher= |access-date= June 24, 2022|quote=Bill 121 provides for the creation of schools or classes within elementary schools to ensure that Francophone students are taught in French, consequent to applications by at least 10 Francophone rate-payers of public or separate school boards. Bill 122 enables public funding of French–language public secondary schools, but not separate Roman Catholic schools. French language advisory committees are set up in public school boards.}}</ref>

The [[Ontario Heritage Trust]] erected a plaque for L’École Guigues and Regulation 17 in front of the former school building, 159 Murray Street, Ottawa. "L’École Guigues became the centre of minority-rights agitation in Ontario when in 1912 the provincial government issued a directive, commonly called Regulation 17, restricting French-language education. Mounting protests forced the government to moderate its policy and in 1927 bilingual schools were officially recognized."
<ref>[http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/Resources---Learning/Online-Plaque-Guide/Plaque-Information.aspx?searchtext=705 Ontario Heritage Trust plaque]</ref>