This article discusses the creation and suppression of a sociolinguistic course in the French language training at the Université de Moncton in Acadia, New Brunswick, Canada. The course was motivated by the observation that the minority situation of the Acadian population has not been theorized in class, and that the teaching of a variety of the so-called “Standard French,” modeled on exogenous language practices, has been a powerful generator of linguistic insecurity among the students. The creation of this course is analyzed as a discursive event around which a series of discourses gravitated, revealing a major ideological struggle between the tenants of a sociolinguistic approach in the teaching of the language and those in support of a traditional approach. The data include administrative reports related to French language training published between 1994 and 2007, summaries of the sociolinguistic course, and semi-directive interviews done with professors in 2014. In a discussion, a Finnish researcher is asked to reflect on the analyses proposed in the article in the context of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland.