Agency:.Produced by Productions Testa Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Groupe Média TFO. Agency - French program:.Canadian Francophonie Studio. Study guide available.

Writer, Anne-Marie Rocher ; director, Anne-Marie Rocher ; consultant, Michel Bastarache, Pierre Foucher ; director of photography, François Vincelette ; sound, Mélanie Gauthier ; editor, Petra Valier ; original music, Jean Derome ; producer, Anne-Marie Rocher, Dominic Desjardins ; research consultant, Solange Lapierre ; visual research, Claire Bourbonnais, Louise Philippe ; sound editor, Daniel Toussaint ; foley artist, Lise Wedlock ; music recording, Robert Langlois ; mixer, Serge Boivin ; executive producer, Anne-Marie Rocher ; executive producer, Dominic Desjardins.

Participant, Yvonne Careen, Stéphane Careen, Rose Démétré, Martin Deschesnes, Albert J. Laferty, Pierre Foucher, Roger Lepage, Stéphane Millette, Suzette Montreuil, Lorie Steinwand, Mark Steinwand, Mia Steinwand, Liam Steinwand, Sylvain Allison, Nicolas Martin Rouleau, Julie Rouleau, Luc Morin, Joseph Pagé, Roger Paul, Mark Power, Maxine Vincelette, Gerry O'Neil ; narrator, Julie Lemieux.

Recorded 2015.

In 1982, when section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was adopted, the Canadian Constitution gave linguistic minorities the right to be educated in their own language. Yet, as francophone minorities outside Quebec soon came to realize, infrastructures needed for an education in French were lacking or totally nonexistent. Groups of parents decided to launch legal battles to force provincial governments to recognize and respect their rights. The three-part documentary series The Fight For Francophone Rights looks at six of these battles. Through interviews with the players involved, director Anne-Marie Rocher spotlights the issues that have pushed francophones to commit to a long fight that many considered a lost cause. If the infrastructures needed to transmit culture, language and history are lacking, inadequate or nonexistent, what does the future hold for francophone minorities?

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).