Charter of the French Language for the English instruction not on the basis of a parent having received his instruction in English in "Canada", but in "Quebec" only. This came to be amended following the adoption of the "Constitution Act 1982", which defined the educational right of French and English minorities in all provinces under section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Office québécois de la langue française, informally known as the "language police", is the commission responsible for conducting the policy pertaining to linguistic officialization, toponymy and francization of civil administration and enterprises. It also has the mission of "monitoring
French language for ceremonial events such as weddings, graduations and church masses. About 70–80% of the country's population have Haitian Creole as their first language; the rest speak French as a first language. The second official language is the recently standardized Haitian Creole, which virtually the entire population of Haiti speaks. Haitian Creole is one of the French-based creole languages, drawing the large majority of its vocabulary from French, with influences from West African languages, as well as several European languages. Haitian Creole is closely related to Louisiana Creole and the creole from the Lesser Antilles. French is the official language of