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The Pros And Cons Of Separation From Canada

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In the duration of WW1 and WW2, French speaking Canadians were against being conscripted because they felt that there was no point in Canada fighting European wars. Whereas English speaking Canadians supported conscription, mostly to help out Britain in the battles. There was a choice here to either side with the English and conscript people or to side with the French and not go through with it. Canada went through with conscription. This proved to French Canadians that the Canadian government would support the English population whenever there was any form of a debate.(Legare, 2017, 1). For this reason Quebec wants to separate from Canada. If they are politically separated they will have the power to make their own laws on whether on not
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Description caption: This picture portrays Mackenzie 's disapproving face of how unwilling he is to introduce the conscription. However, the governor general and his assistant look very happy since king introduced conscription and convinced them that it was going to make the conditions of overseas soldiers better. Mackenzie king did not want conscription because of the tensions that French and English Canadians faced during world war one. He didn’t want to imitate the mistakes again. In fact, he only wanted a limited number of men going overseas as a result of tremendous number of causalities.

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This promise would appeal to the French Canadians that did not feel a connection to Britain and did not feel any sense of loyalty. He also saw how conscription divided Canada at the end of the first world war, and did not want to recreate that scene. There came a time near the end of world war two when there was a shortage of men. This was due as a result of D-Day and the Dieppe raid. Many men were dying in the war and that must have discouraged other men in Canada from signing up.

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Quebec wouldn’t succeed as a country because it will have an unstable or no economy at all, as well Quebec will have to make a government of their own and lastly they would have no means of seld defence. Québec would have a hard time being a country without considering these facts for the future of it’s citizens. 　　　　Separating from a large country such as Canada has many consequences. One of the major consequences of separating from a country is the economy. The economy has to be

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No, Canada was not justified in adopting the policy of Conscription in WWI. Firstly, you can’t win by force only by the heart. Since the conscription forced the men into the military, these soldiers were not passionate about saving their country. Only 24,000 conscripts Second, the conscription caused the country to break apart. While the Anglophones agreed to the conscription, the Francophones disagreed.

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