This article examines the political restructuring process of the Association culturelle franco-canadienne de la Saskatchewan (ACFC) between 1988 and 1999 that resulted in the creation of the Assemblée communautaire fransaskoise (ACF), a group of community representatives elected by universal suffrage among the province’s Francophone population. This study is based on an analysis of ACFC documents, a press review and 11 interviews with social actors of the time. Using the theoretical framework proposed by Fligstein and McAdam in A Theory of Fields (2012), we seek to shed new light on power issues and governance dynamics in Francophone minority communities, highlighting, in the Fransaskois community case, the influence of the federal state, the context and restructuring proponents who were successful in bringing together enough stakeholders with divergent interests to gain acceptance for a new structure and new governance mechanisms.