The Conscription Crisis
summary : Wartime Elections Act and the Military Voters Act were used to make Conscription happening.
Complaints
-Not enough volunteers for army because they were working
-PM Borden has promised there would be no conscription
-Military Service Act came in after Vimy Ridge in 1917
-French Canadians were mad because they were forced by it to join the war.
-Farmers were upset because they needed their sons to run farms
-Labour unions also opposed
-PM Borden has promised there would be no conscription
-Military Service Act came in after Vimy Ridge in 1917
-French Canadians were mad because they were forced by it to join the war.
-Farmers were upset because they needed their sons to run farms
-Labour unions also opposed
The 1917 Conscription Election
-An election over the conscription issue was called
-Wartime Elections Act and the Military Voters Act
-Rights for women to vote
-Rights for soldiers out there to vote
-Both groups were in favor of conscription
-Borden also invited opposition Liberals to join his government forming wartime Union Gov’t.
-Anti-conscription riots broke out in Quebec following the passing of the Act
-Wartime Elections Act and the Military Voters Act
-Rights for women to vote
-Rights for soldiers out there to vote
-Both groups were in favor of conscription
-Borden also invited opposition Liberals to join his government forming wartime Union Gov’t.
-Anti-conscription riots broke out in Quebec following the passing of the Act