POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: North-West Rebellion, Parti Québécois, Maurice Duplessis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2300
• Professor: Ajay Sharma

Document Summary

We had inefficient government at this time, english and french could not agree with each other: french canadians asserted their rights through united province of. Canada to institutional their own affairs in their province. The myth of the compact theory- useless, legally it means nothing, sociologically it means the world. Ethnic/linguistic conflicts: the riel rebellion: louis riel, with the metis fighting for their freedom out west, northwest rebellion- first nations and metis uprising, riel was convicted of treason and was executed (made the federal. The conscription crisis: british government needed more troops for ww1, so the canadian government introduced conscription (this was a problem in. This was a british and french war not a quebec war), non the less the government did it, and the penalty for not obeying was execution: this also showed untrustworthy towards english, this was oppression by english.