In the 1970s, the issue of access to French-language mental health services for the Francophone minority emerged in Ontario, in particular due to the lobbying efforts of the ACFO and the Dubois Report on French language health services. Thereafter, the issue of mental health care for youth became a fundamental aspect in the battle for access to French-language health services. As the ultimate symbol of the minority subject, Franco-Ontarian youth became catalysts in the discourse of politicians, interest groups and parents who wrote to the provincial minister of health demanding mental health services in French and calling for a global healthcare policy.