How Canadian conscription benifited Canada's relationship with Britain?

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  1. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    English Canada was almost overwhelmingly pro-conscription in ww2 [Over 80% of English Canada voted in favour, while 70% of French Canadians voted against].
    In June, 1940, when France had fallen, and Canada called for the mandatory military training of Canadians for home defence. Quebec was reluctant to comply even with this order.
    Hundreds of years after the colonization of North America, French Canadian resentment toward English-speaking Canada still fuels a resistant, pacifistic attitude that can be seen today. Recent polls on Canada's role in Afghanistan continue illustrate enormous differences of opinion between Quebec and the rest of Canada.
    While English Canadians in ww1 and 2 had a dual allegiance to both Canada and Britain, the French felt only a loyalty to Canada and harboured a lingering resentment to the English. The sources of which can be traced to the Plains of Abraham and the uneasy history of the "two solitudes" ever since.
     
  2. jainso31

    jainso31 jainso31

    There is of course a thinly disguised veneer of antipathy between those over the Channel and the Perfidious Albion ,which stretches back for centuries;and which two world wars did NOT help.

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  3. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    Should we ask for Aquitaine, Brittany or Normandy back, or Calais?
     

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