POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Concurrent Powers, Lower Canada, Quebec Act

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Andre Lecours

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Part two: discuss the political conditions that could favour that reform. Use around 5-10 sources, the more the better. Use peer-reviewed journal articles, books, papers written on the internet by respected scholars or people that may not have been published but presented at conferences. Format for references has to be recognized format e. g. apa. mla. The 1867 constitution and the division of powers. American loyalists move to canada because they are still loyal to the british crown but many americans wanted independence in the us (cid:523)(cid:883)7(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:495)s(cid:524) in (cid:883)79(cid:882)(cid:495)s canada is divided into two areas; upper and lower canada. Upper canada has many french speaking people, different religious beliefs. Lower canada is what could be called ontario today. Lord durham comes along believes for canada to work properly one of the two parts of canada must assimilate to the other. Believes the french upper part must assimilate to english speaking lower canada. Another reason is the eastern areas like the idea of.