Conscription In Canada

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surrounded by their enemies, had later murdered her anoited king and turned athiest... if a people deserted God they were punished for it, and France was being punished now. " 1This sort of sentiment was one that was shared by many French Candiens. French-English relations were already suffering and continued to do so before World War 1. But the biggest strains occurred when issues of Canadian participation in World war 1 and 2 were mentioned. Most of the strain originated from Quebec.Conscription was be the nail that drove a wedge deep into the national unity of the country and would serve as a precursor to the modern developments in Canadian unity. Twice in the twentieth century conscription destroyed national unity. It tore apart political parties and it greatly divided French Canadians from English Canadians forever. There were mixed feelings all around Canada, tensions built, patience was stretched and friends would become enemies. Twice in Canada's history conscription ...

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have been brining them closer together. In the Second World War, it was Prime Minister Mackenzie King that would attempt to hold together the pieces of national unity that had been crushed by the nail of the first conscription crisis.
Conscription in 1917 was one of the biggest issues that shook the Canadian political structure. Critics argue that conscription allowed Canada to help Britain and France defeat Germany and thus providing Canada with national untiy ; however, many other critics argue that conscription was needless because it unnecessarily split the country and caused a breakdown in the political harmony the French and English had struggled to achieve. Conscription certainly ...

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