This article focuses on what the Franco-Canadian, and more specifically the Franco-Ontarian, elites expect from the artists and their productions in the context of the 1960’s and 1970’s social transformations. It particularly analyses the three investigation reports requested by the Ontarian government between 1969 and 1991: the Comité franco-ontarien d’enquête culturelle (commonly referred to as the Rapport Saint-Denis), the Groupe d’étude sur les arts dans la vie franco-ontarienne, entitled Cultiver sa différence. Rapport sur les arts dans la vie franco-ontarienne (or le Rapport Savard, presented in 1977) and the Groupe de travail pour une politique culturelle des francophones de l’Ontario, named RSVP. Clefs en main (or le Rapport Grisé, tabled in 1991). This analysis identifies the different roles, usually ones of social cohesion and identity building, that the elites would like the artists and their work to play. It also highlights the challenges faced by the artists in regard to the conceptions of art offered to, if not imposed upon them.