written to Reverend Father Chaine, of Arnprior, a town
not far from Ottawa.

I spoke to you a moment ago of the right to appoint trustees. I want
you, gentlemen, many of whom I have the honour of calling my friends,
and whom I see before me, my Protestant friends of Quebec, how would
you like it if the Roman Catholic School Committee in this province were
to arrogate to itself the right to appoint the teachers in your
dissentient schools, and to define their duties? How would you like it?
Would you think that was keeping faith with the British North America
Act? Would you think that was keeping faith with the Confederation
partnership? How would you like it if this same Committee, not only
would assume to appoint your teachers and your inspectors, and would
take good care also to appoint Catholic inspectors in your Protestant
schools--how would you like it? Will you not take that suggestion home
with you, gentlemen, and think it over? How would you like this
regulation No. 17 to be applied to the Province of Quebec?

Let me read the two or three most important sections of the regulation
and substitute the word "French" for the word "English" and vice versa
wherever they occur, and I want you to take that home also and think it
over. Let us read section 3 of the regulation No. 17:

3. Subject in the case of each school to the direction and
approval of the superintendent of Education (I use that
term advisably as corresponding to the term used in
Ontario) the following modifications shall also be made in
the course of study in separate schools.

The use of ENGLISH FOR INSTRUCTION AND COMMUNICATION.

(1) WHERE NECESSARY, in the case of English-speaking
pupils, English may be used as the language of instruction
and communication; but such use of English shall not be
continued beyond Form 1 (that is the first two years the
child goes to school) excepting that on the approval of the
Superintendent of Education, it may also be used as the
language of instruction and communication in the case of
pupils beyond Form 1, who are unable to speak and
understand the French language.

Now, gentlemen, will you seriously consider that? How would you like
that kind of thing, you the English-speaking people of the Province of
Quebec, if you could use your language in your schools, as a means of
instruction and communication in the first form, that is during t