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∙ 12y agoIssues with Confederation
- We are Canada West. Most powerful province in all of the colonies and provinces that are trying to join together.
- Largest population
- Best political leaders
- Most money
- Why would we want to give our money away to the smaller provinces? Why would we want to join them?
- Every year, we give money, but get less back. (Revenue sharing- redistribution of income)
French:
- Plus, we would have to join French, who we have spent the past 200 years crushing in wars.
- Don't want to make French 2nd language.
- One main language to communicate. Everyone else can speak what they want in their cultures.
- When immigrants come here, there is no point in teaching them to speak french.
- If cdw was independent, we wouldn't have to spend $ in making everything in both french and English (eg. signs)
- Next 100 years, french will be fighting for their rights and culture, so why cooperate now? It'll save trouble.
- To be in fed gov, speak both french and eng. more french that can speak both. They don't have our best interests at heart, and we don't want them controlling us.
- If we have french and eng. on all of our signs, the people in Toronto won't ever speak french, and people in Quebec won't speak eng.
-Why bother teaching every single other
- why would we give the french so much power?
-if there is a topic the british and French disagree on, French will have as much say as we do. If there's a war, for example, that is in the best interest of us, but the French think they have no part in it, we will have to fight them just to protect ourselves
Federal Government:
- Who is to say a fed gov will have our best interests at heart either? fed gov has all sorts of rights that we can make do with ourselves:
- new gov costs a lot of $
- more money to central gov
- control of natives, and we want to take their stuff (what if they want to put them on reserves?)
- losing our english culture to the french
- they can celebrate what they want (culture, religion, etc.), freedoms are granted, but why are we holding the french culture so much higher than the others; we have all sorts of immigrants (eg. Irish)
- pretty soon, the french will take over our country!
- we need to protect our british ties
- fed gov has power to control local issues, and can interfere with local projects, controlling local affairs; could take our power and give power to Quebec
- fed gov do not have our best interests at heart. If we had our own gov, we have our own interests at heart; make own money, etc.
- taxation, and how it will be spent
- the money could be spent according to the wishes of the other provinces, and not our own
- we are most rich; our money will be distributed to the wrong places: other provinces.
- have the power to pass or decline provincial laws, even if in best interest
- we can still trade with everyone! we can still fairly trade with quebec; they are very isolated; they only have us, the US
Trade:
- Would Union really increase trade?
- colonies have very different economies
- would require good transportation systems (railways)
- very expensive
- go into debt
- more transportation could increase taxes to pay off gov. debts
- more expensive to send to far provinces rather than to US
- if we build railways, it will be more expensive to pay off debt than to send to US and the other provinces themselves
-Don't need to make a country with French to trade with them
Big Awkward Country:
- costs for transportation; red river, quebec, new brunswick
- small population compared to other countries
- All this empty space, nothing to fill it, be easier if we were each our own separate country
Railroad:
- doesn't mean it unites as a country
- we already have a very extensive and good railway system
- thousands of miles through forests and sometimes barren landscape
- way into debt for something with no real goal
- huge project; and ending up underused
- only to help big railway companies, which won't really help us (debt)
- why build railway to the east? there are resources of bountiless end in the west. there
are so many more opportunities and frontiers to be achieved there.
- easier to send trade products through the US if you want to get it to the maritime
provinces; why waste money to build a railway around the US
Religion:
- mostly Protestant, but CDE has Catholics.... risk of clash
- the french think our money should go to the Catholic church! its the Protestants that matter! our population is mainly protestant anyway, so why not assimilate the french?
Defence:
- How can we be sure that the Fenians and Americans will actually attack? Who's to say that we don't have sufficient armies of our own? We can always unite simply as allies; there is no need to confederate because of this threat.
-We have the largest pop, won't it be our sons making up most of the army
-Our sons defending other provinces- give up Toronto to save Quebec City? No way!
Land:
-Expand to land south of Lake superior, but from hudson's bay company, new frontier
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∙ 14y agopros- it was the frenches only way to survive by keeping their language and religon(catholic)
^^ Canada west is Ontario, not Quebec...
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∙ 11y agoThey gave up a lot. They gave up their ocean waters, their industry and more. They would have had a much higher standard of living by joining the USA.
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∙ 11y agonot being able to understand the language
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