Military Services Act

. . infuriated by” is still widely debated. Some argue that it removed many of the rights granted to Canadians, while others commend the government for doing their job and protecting the people of the nation. The process that led up to the enactment of the War Measures Act was that on October 15, Quebec acted within the National Defense Act which “permitted Quebec to call in the Canadian Army.” Arrival of the troops created unrest within the province and the next day, at the request of the Quebec government, “the War Measures Act Regulations were proclaimed by Ottawa.” The War Measures Act allowed authorities (police and army) to arrest and imprison anyone who had any tie to the “unlawful association” which was the FLQ in this case. Many people were detained and released again; this enactment facilitated the arrest of many of the leaders within the FLQ which stopped much of the momentum of the terrorist movement. Many people saw the War Measures Act as a “Great Reinforcer” for the police as well as for the governments reputation. The chaos that ensued in October put much stress upon the Prime Minister at the time, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who was a Quebecois

Losses like the Battle of Second Ypres where 60,000 Canadians died and Battle of the Somme where 600,000 of Allied troops were wounded had a big impact on Canada. The Canadian troops had started to doubt the British leaders. Since Canada had a lack of experience with wars they didn't have many commanding roles. This began to cause resentment but changed in 1916 when Canadians were promoted.

This had made a divide between the civilians creating more pressure on both the government and the terrorists to do something. Because Canada had this terrorist attack happen it opened up not only the government's eyes but the civilians eyes and made them realize that terrorism was not such a foreign thing and that it is a possible thing to happen in countries like Canada. This realization caused some people to flee Quebec in search for a more calm province. This also pressured Quebec to make the decision in the future to stay a part of

The decision to pass the Military Service Act of 1914 by Sir Robert Borden’s Conservative Government was undemocratic and split Canada between the English and the French speaking, and the rural and city Canadians. In December 1914, Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden told Canadians that “there has not been, there will not be, compulsion or conscription.” By agreeing to conscription at the Imperial War Conference in England, he not only went back on his word, but also decided without considering that many Canadians opposed conscription. This was insensitive and as a result, there were numerous protests. Farmers across Canada, who needed their sons to help on the field, held a large protest in Ottawa in the June of 1918. Likewise, French Canadians

During the war, there was discrimination towards many groups such as the African Canadians, the First Nations, the Chinese Canadians, and German Canadians. Many were not allowed to join the Canadian forces unless they fit certain criteria or when the army was in dire need of men. Another event that pulled people apart was the mistrust of German, Austrian, and Hungarian Canadians as they thought that they were spies or that they would threaten their war efforts. Violence and prejudice was thrown upon them and harm was done to a large population of Canada. Conscription also created a rift between the francophones, who did not feel the need to serve Britain, the Mother country of others, and the anglophones who were for it. However, during the

The War Measures Act is a federal law adopted by parliament in 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War. It gave broad powers to the Canadian government to maintain security and order during war. This allowed the government to remove all rights and freedoms from an individual. This could be the case with the use of the War Measures Act in World War 1. During this time, the immigrants in Canada, who lived in one of the Central Powers were considered “enemy aliens” and forced to register

Firstly The military service act was passed in the year 1917 by prime minister Borden, who was a great nationalist and wanted to make sure that his country was well protected. Conscription took away from french Canadian culture because many of the soldiers were mainly English speaking creating language barriers between french Canadians and English Canadians.

Trudeau also invoked the War Measures Act, which was the first time to be done during peace time. This allowed police to search and arrest anyone who might have been seen as a suspect with out warrant. The kidnappers of Cross then murdered Cross after realizing that the government would not negotiate to their demands, police later found Laporte alive, was released. For the sake of Laportes safety the FLQ was given a safe passage to cube where his kidnappers were later arrested and put in jail and the crisis was over. This left an effect on Quebec and Canada's economy and pride till this day. Many supported and many hated Trudeau for invoking the war time act although man arrested were them released. Quebec had strong pride for their wants of being noticed as part of Canada's government and to have more say in things happening politically. Terrorism in Canada is still occurring but the impact of the FLQ and October Crisis was one unlike any

Conscription enacted in WW1 was a very big idea that affected many people and has caused more harm than good. There were many debates due to the fact conscription was added to the recruitment efforts, however, not many people know what conscription was, or why it was added. There were many people who were affected due to conscription however not only did it affect the citizens if affected others such as the government. It had some major effects such as an everlasting hate between English and French Canadians, however, it also had minor effects that happened to citizens at the time. Finally, conscription of Canadian men in both World Wars did guarantee an alienating government which resulted in a divided country causing Canada’s own people to fight each other.

A famous quote by Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, in World War Two is, “Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription” (Persico, 199). The conscription crisis during World War One and World War Two had a negative effect on Canadian society. First of all, the Conscription Crisis of World War One, taking place between 1917 and 1918, introduced many important events for Canadian history. Furthermore, in World War Two, conscription is established yet again between 1944 and 1945. This reintroduction of conscription took place for many reasons, and led to a negative impact throughout Canada. Lastly, many people attempted to prevent conscription, such as Prime Minister McKenzie King. Therefore the conscription crisis of World War One had a negative effect on Canada.

50 years. (CBC, 14) Conscription was not justified as it negatively impacted not just Canadian society, it created

Conscription perception changes more than once and it have many different reasons for it to change. I have been able to focus my research on how writers feel about conscription depending on different aspects. I have and will focus on different aspects of military conscription. The first section of the paper will consist of the writer’s perspectives on conscription during major military events. Starting from the First World War in the early 1900s and stop at present day today and what impact conscription has on the world today. The main perspectives I will be using will be the writing samples of writers writing about the wars

In the conscription debate of 1917, farmers disagreed with Robert Borden idea of forcing male citizens of Canada to be in the war (Canada War Museum, NA). Not only in Canada, it was global as well. This is because, the conscription act impacted the farmer's employment work (Canada War Museum, NA). It affected their work time management for their agriculture because the farmer's sons were going to war and the farmer is unable to do a lot of labor work since their children help and support is gone during the four years of war. Normally, farmer's children helped their family farm to grow their agriculture business, however since WW1 occurred, they lost their employment support (Canada War Museum, NA). The only reason conscription occurred during

In August 4th, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany if they did not withdraw their troops from Belgium. At the time, Britain controlled the foreign policies of its dominions. Because of this, it resulted in dragging Canada to fighting this war. Canada had no say whether if they didn’t want to fight in this war. When news broke out that a war would happen between Britain and Germany, many people had a patriotic sense to protect their mother country, and in a month more than 30,000 people signed up for this war. Even Wilfred Laurier, the former prime minister pledged his support to this cause, and stated, “all Canadians are behind the Mother Country”.

Britain, fearing that it was falling behind, asked members of its Empire including Canada to provide financial support. The Naval Service Bill of 1910 was a piece of Canadian government legislation that was created by Wilfrid Laurier. Before the bill was introduced, Canada did not have a navy of its own, Canada was depending on the British Royal Navy for maritime defence. The Naval Service Bill was designed to provide Canada with a separate naval force, but it would need to be able to be controlled by Brittan during any war. At the end of 1910 the Royal Canadian Navy was created. Both French-Canadian nationalists and British-Canadian imperialists weren’t in favor of the bill, which eventually caused Laurier to not be prime minister anymore and also the Naval Service Bill being replaced by a new bill created by Prime Minister Robert Borden in 1912. I thought that Laurier made a very good choice having this bill passed because Canada shouldn’t be depending on Brittan to help them because they don’t have their own