Children of Bill 101
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The children of Bill 101 (les enfants de la loi 101) is the name given to the generation of children whose parents immigrated to Quebec, Canada after the adoption of the 1977 Charter of the French Language (aka Bill 101).
One of the Charter's articles stipulates that all children under 16 must receive their primary and secondary education in French schools, unless one of the parent's child has received most of his/her education in English in Canada.
Mostly because of this, the children of Bill 101, numbering roughly 400 000 individuals as of December 2003, have adopted French as their primary language of communication in a much greater proportion than the previous generations of immigrants.