HIST 1126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oliver Mowat, Political Machine, Upper Class
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Liberals party loyalty was strong about being a member of political machine, identifying yourself if father and grandfather were conservatives, you would be too. Consensus style management various groups get together to discuss how to appeal to ppl effectively managing a consensus was a key component to being a leader. Riel is a french catholic martry, pushes many quebec b=voters against. Manitoba"s schools question decision by manitoba conservative provincial gov"t to scrap funding for. French speaking schools many franco-manitobans angered, turn to liberal gov"t to to step in, however liveral gov"t doeos nothing. Conservatives continually alienate larger and larger groups of ppl. Pm of liberal administration until 1911 comes into power in 1896 popular leader among french. French canadians not fond of british empire influence on canada, assimilating everyone into this anglo-protestant world. Oct. 11, 1899 boer opens fire on british empire start of the boer war. English-protestant men in canada cheering and eager to go to war.
