The number of institutes devoted to secondary education remained almost unchanged between 1880-1881 and 1895-1896.
The state of secondary education still leaves much to be desired..
In this capacity he was responsible in 1890 for some important reforms in secondary education.
There is a college for secondary education in Calgary and another in Edmonton.
He became a member of the Committee of Public Instruction early in 1793, and after carrying many useful decrees on the preservation of national monuments, on the military schools, on the reorganization of the Museum of Natural History and other matters, he brought forward on the 26th of June his Projet d'education nationale (printed at the Imprimerie Nationale), which proposed to lay the burden or primary education on the public funds, but to leave secondary education to private enterprise.
