On 3 June 1993 the Saskatchewan government passed legislation that guaranteed Francophones the right to operate and control their own schools. Concretely, francophone governance over a network of eight schools became a reality in the 1994 school year. The creation of francophone schools, however, has been a long and difficult journey fraught with countless difficulties and a series of setbacks. For example, despite the legal right to official minority language education enshrined in Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982), Saskatchewan and other anglophone provinces have been reluctant to grant these rights. Significantly, it was only after the 1990 Supreme Court of Canada decision in the 'Mahé' case that Saskatchewan and other provinces accorded the right to francophone governance over their schools.