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Date: 1977-08-18
By: Quebec
Citation: 18th Annual Premiers Conference, An Agreement to Promote Access to Schooling for Certain Categories of Persons from Outside Quebec, Doc 850-8/014 (St. Andrews: 18-19 August 1977).
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18TH ANNUAL PREMIERS CONFERENCE
An Agreement to Promote Access
to Schooling for Certain Categories of Persons
from Outside Québec
Québec
PROJECT FOR DISCUSSION
St. Andrews, N.B
August 18-19, 1977

Province of . . . . . . . .represented by. . . . . . . .
Whereas the Government of Québec and the Government of the Province of . . . . . . .
have exclusive jurisdiction in educational matters;
Whereas the Government of Québec and the Government of the Province of .. . . . . .
have enacted and are likely to enact laws respecting access to educational
services in their respective territories;
Whereas such measures could influence the accessibility of educational services
for persons moving from one province to the other;
Whereas the Government of Québec and the Government of the Province of .. . . . . . wish
these persons to have access to educational services in English in Québec and in
French in the Province of……….
SINCE the Government of Québec and the Government of the Province of . . . . . . . . . .. . .
consider it necessary to adopt the measures required to allow such access to
designated persons from one or the other province;
THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:
I – Persons designited
For the purposes of this agreement, “persons designated” refers to the
following categories:
(a) Beneficiaries from the Province of
children whose father or mother received elementary education in
Canada in English, and is domiciled in that Province;
children whose father or mother received elementary education in
English outside Canada, but is domiciled in that Province on
September 1, 1977;
children who, during their most recent school year before the
lst of September, l977 were receiving in the Province of…….
instruction in English in kindergarten or in elementary or
secondary school;
younger brothers and sisters of the children contemplated in
the preceding paragraph.

educational services in French. Depending on the province, the
availability of services may be defined according to an area
(e.g. a city of a certain size), or the: concentration of French-
speaking people (e.g. a minimum number of French-speaking
students), or the level or kind of study (e.g. elementary/
secondary; general/technical), and so on.
II – Educational services
(a) The Government of Québec will take the necessary steps to ensure
that any beneficiary coming to Québec from the Province of . . . . . . . .
will receive, upon request by his parents, instruction in English
in kindergarten or in elementary or secondary school;
(b) the Government of the Province will take
the necessary steps to ensure that any beneficiary from Québec coming
to the Province of will receive, upon
request by his parents, instruction in French in kindergarten
or in elementary or secondary school;
(c) for these purposes, the parties agree to assist each other by
cooperating on programs as needed (the sending of teachers,
technical courses and missions, exchanges of teaching materials,
and so forth), and to facilitate issuance of the administrative
papers required by the beneficiairies.
III – Carrying out the agreenent
The ministers of education of each province will see to the
carrying out of this agreement.
IV – Revision of terms
In view of the wish of the parties to encourage as mush as possible
mutual access to comparable educational services, the parties will
revise the definitions in Section I of this agreement every three years

V- DURATION
This agreement comes into force on the day it is signed and remains
in force, unless notice of revocation is given by one of the parties
at least 3 months before the date of its anniversary.