We feel that the government, any government, always has good intentions. History has indeed shown us that intentions have always been good and that the laws were, generally speaking, constitutional. However, it is the way that these laws were interpreted and enforced that often causes the problem.
Many of the legal proceedings instituted by the parents for school management or schools were actions taken against the provincial or even territorial governments. In the case of the Northwest Territory government, the issue concerned services in French. This was not about constitutionality per se, but about enforcement.