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
Official language after unifying the country in 221 BC. Classical Chinese would remain the standard written language for the next 2000 years. Standardization of the spoken language received less political attention, and Mandarin developed on an "ad hoc" basis from the dialects of the various imperial capitals until being officially standardized in the early twentieth century. According to an undated chart by the American pro-English-only organization known as U.S. English, 178 countries have an official language at the national level. Among those, English is the most common with 67 nations giving it official status. French is second with 29 countries, Arabic is