Canada's Francophone Minority Communities: Constitutional
Renewal and the Winning of School Governance, Michael D. Behiels,
Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2004, pp.
442.Michael Behiels straightforwardly sets out the purpose of his book in
the very first sentence: “This study is a descriptive analysis of
Canada's francophone minority communities' quest for renewal and
regeneration through constitutional reform and the winning of school
governance” (xxi). Behiels bases his study on archived material from
a number of francophone groups, government documents, court decisions,
interviews with five francophone activists, and a large number of
secondary sources.