The Régie may request any business firm which does not have the certificate contemplated in section 26 to take up the elaboration and implementation of a francization program.

The petitioners are entitled to the assistance of the investigation commissioners and their staff to draw up their petitions. They are entitled however to reimbursement of their justifiable expenses in the exercise of their functions and they shall receive an attendance allowance fixed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

Such tests must take account of the levels of instruction, including kindergarten, for which the applications for enrolment are made, and of the age and previous education of the examinees. The Inuit language must be at least equal in prominence to other languages.

TITLE IV Such regulations may provide for the issue of provisional certificates in lieu of the certificates provided for in the first paragraph to business firms which plan to adopt the francization program contemplated above if they show that they have made the required provisions to that effect. This makes them "official" languages, having preferred status in law over all other languages. Other sections ("Final Provisions") were aimed at bringing several other laws in line with the Official Language Act. The Charter of Rights, on the other hand, guarantees minority language education in all provinces for children of Canadian citizens where numbers warrant the establishment of schools. If at least ten per cent of the persons administered by a municipal or school body are English-speaking and it has been its practice to draw up its official texts and documents in English, it must draw them up in both French and English. But it's silent on the issue of which languages people may use at work.

1977, c. 5, s. 89 . French was the normal language of learning institutions, but provisions existed for aboriginals (Amerindians and Inuit) and children who would be taught in English.

Such regulations shall establish classes of business firms on the basis of their kinds of activities, the size of their personnel, the breadth of the programs to be adopted and other relevant particulars; they shall also determine, for each class so established, the date on which the certificates mentioned above become exigible for the application of section 28.

Title IV specifies the manner in which the municipal and school bodies contemplated above are determined. If, in the opinion of the Régie, a person has suffered an injustice by the effect of any act or regulation, it may suggest amendments to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council and, if it sees fit, submit a special report to the Minister, who shall immediately lay it before the National Assembly; it may also, if it so chooses, set forth the situation in its annual report. Other sections ("Final Provisions") were aimed at bringing several other laws in line with the Official Language Act. “English-speaking merchants, who formed a minority in New France, soon took control of the economy and would seek to impose their will on the French-speaking majority for the next 200 years,” noted Université du Québec à Montréal historian Mathieu Noël in his article on language conflict in Quebec for the McCord Museum of Canadian History. (a) for the first offence, to a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $500, in the case of an individual, and of not less than $50 nor more than $1,000 in the case of a corporation; (b) for any subsequent offence within two years, to a fine of $3,000 in the case of an individual, and of $5,000 in the case of a corporation. CHAPTER 6 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ACT. Contracts pre-determined by one party, contracts containing printed standard clauses, and printed order forms, invoices and receipts must be drawn up in French. These lists shall be incontestable and shall be the sole criterion for the application of sections 9, 13 and 45. Every contract drawn up in French and English conforms to this section. However, this law was repealed in 1977 with the adoption of the Charter of the French language (Bill 101). CHAPTER II Nevertheless, the School Board of New Québec may provide instruction to the Indians and Inuits in their own languages.