La Cité collégiale is the largest French-language applied arts and technology college in Ontario, Canada’s most densely populated province. Created in 1989, it is situated in Ottawa (with a satellite campus in Hawkesbury and a business office in Toronto) and now offers more than 90 programs to some 4 700 full-time students from Ontario, other parts of Canada and many foreign countries. In 2011, La Cité collégiale ranked 1 among the 24 Ontario colleges in terms of student satisfaction, graduate employment rate, usefulness of knowledge and skills acquired, overall quality of learning experiences, and overall quality of services, according to the results of an annual survey by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. The College also ranked 2 in terms of overall quality of the facilities. The government of Ontario creates a network of community colleges in 1967. Certain colleges, including Algonquin College, in Ottawa, and St-Lawrence College, in Cornwall, offer French-language programs. As early as the 1970s, the relevance of the bilingual college model is questioned and the possibility of creating a 23rd – French – college in Ontario was put forth.