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Conscription In World War One

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Conscription was the mandatory enrollment of civilians in the army. Execution of conscription forms in World War 1 were done by the Federal Government. This created divides between Anglophones, who wanted to conscript people and Francophones, who were against conscripting people.(Jones and Granatstein, 2006, 1). Around the end of 1916, there were a large amount of casualties at the European front causing recruitment issues for the Canadian Commanders. The enrollment and manpower system was chaotic and and recruitment was sluggish.(Jones and Granatstein, 2006, 4). Robert Borden decided that conscription was imperative, and he declared this in Parliament. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Liberal Leader, however was against this because people from Quebec
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