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first two years, only if and when the Superintendent of Education for
this Province, after examination of your children, might say it was
absolutely necessary to use English?

As a subject of study let us carry on the same process. I will read
further from regulation 17, making the same transposition:

"English as a subject of study in separate (or dissentient)
schools."

4. In schools where English--(remember, gentlemen, we are
now in 1912)--has HITHERTO been a subject of study, the
separate (or dissentient) school board may provide, under
the following conditions, for instruction in English,
reading, grammar and composition in Form 1 to 4, in
addition to the subjects prescribed for the separate (or
dissentient) schools.

(1) Such instruction in English may be taken only by pupils
whose parents or guardians direct that they shall do so,
and may, notwithstanding section 3 above, be given in the
English language.

(2) Such instruction in English shall not interfere with
the adequacy of the instruction in French, and the
provision for such instruction in English in the time-table
of the school shall be subject to the approval and
direction of the Superintendent of Education, and shall not
in any day EXCEED ONE HOUR in each class room, except where
the time is increased upon the order of the superintendent.

Would that be agreeable to you, gentlemen, to have only one hour of
English in your school, and that confined to reading, composition and
grammar, and nothing else, and just one hour--and more than that if it
pleased the Superintendent of Education to say that you should have
English for one minute only each day, would you be satisfied with that?
That is Regulation No. 17 in all its simplicity!

Are you surprised, gentlemen, that the French-Canadians of Ontario have
strenuously protested and intend to continue to do so, and have asked
the support of the Province of Quebec under conditions of that kind? We
have sought the support of our French-Canadian friends in the Province,
and we have got it; but I for one am very much more anxious to have the
sympathy and the help of the English-speaking people of the Province of
Quebec. If I accepted the invitation to come here within half an hour
after getting the telegram from my good friend Mr. Paradis, it was
because I thought that I might contribute in some small w