In February 1997, the Ontario government announced the closure of Hôpital Montfort, the province's only French-language teaching hospital. The shockwave was immediate, giving rise to SOS Montfort, an organization dedicated to saving an institution deemed essential to the survival of French Ontario. The result was an impressive solidarity movement that shone a spotlight on the issue of the francophone minority on the national stage.

Edited by François Charbonneau and Michel Bock, Le moment Montfort dans la francophonie canadienne takes a multi-faceted look at the issues and repercussions of a national crisis. It offers an in-depth, never-before-published overview that renews our understanding of the socio-political condition of Canada's French-speaking minority communities.

Contributions by: Marcel Martel, Serge Miville, François-Olivier Dorais, Marie-Claude Thifault, Pierre Foucher, Mariève Forest, Anne Gilbert, Louise Bouchard
Series edited by: Michel Bock