POL337Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Sandfield Macdonald, Flash Point, Great Coalition
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In 1854 and 1858 the liberals won more seats. Coalition" of 1864: the 1851 census revealed that canada west now had more people than. In 1854, the legislature was increased in size to 130 members: 65 for each of canada west and canada east. By then, canada west should have received more mps, according to the principle of representation by population: ontario liberals, the leading ontario liberal was george brown, the founder of the globe and mail. By the mid-1850s, he had brought all the reformers together into the new liberal party: the liberals deeply resented the influence sir john a"s conservative governments could exercise over ontario"s affairs in the pre-1867. Province o canada, even though sir john a"s: governments usually only had only a minority of seats from canada west (ontario), as we just saw, the liberals usually won the canada west half of.
