HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Obstetrics, Thomas Scott (Orangeman), North-West Rebellion
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Conservatives realized this was a tricky situation and it could be difficult to intervene, solution was to let the courts decide (an easy out, buying time). Going into the campaign the legal issues had been sorted so they could no longer wait. Catholics were aggrieved and they expected the government to take action, and they decided to take action by demanding the provinces remedy this, and the provinces refused. Conservatives have stood behind remedial legislation but it hasn"t worked, so at this point the conservatives commit themselves to enacting remedial legislation if elected. The liberals had the rouges and the grits as part of their tradition, behind the idea of ontario having its chance to expand into the northwest. Also a party of provincial rights (over the central government, as opposed to the. Significance: french canadians urged commutation of the death penalty and called the trial and hanging unjust, whereas many english canadians took the opposite positions.
