(Maurice Duplessis in the election in 1952 campaigning)
Maurice Duplessis and the Great Darkness (1944-1959)
Maurice Duplessis was Premier of Quebec from 1944-1959 and led the Union Nationale political party. He was a Quebec nationalist and believed that Quebec should be a distinctive society, that it should be a nation instead of a Canadian province. Soon Duplessis created a new flag just for Quebec that had the fleur-de-lys, which, was a French symbol. This pushed Canadians apart because soon people in Quebec wanted to be separate from Canada and Roman Catholic Church was defending Québec’s culture and right to be separate. In fact Priests encouraged people who lived in Quebec to turn their backs on the English speaking North American and …show more content…
They were denied voting rights before because they didn’t have enough property or got aid from the government or just not given an explanation and denied anyway. After the Military Voters Act, some Aboriginal people were given the right to vote if they were in the armed forced at present or in the past. However, after World War II, many Aboriginals had served Canada during the war and a parliamentary committee in 1948 said they should be able to vote. But First Nations refused to vote because it meant they had to give up the tax exemptions that were part of the rights the treaty provided. Then in 1960 John Diefenbaker extended the right to vote to First Nations people unconditionally. Including the First Nations in the politics of Canada and giving them more of a voice using the right to vote made Canada closer and put people on more equal footing. Now that Aboriginals had the right to vote, they could feel more close to Canada and accepting of it as their country. Additionally, other Canadians were more likely to see and respect Aboriginal people because they had the same right they had: to help decide who ran their
Maurice Duplessis and the Great Darkness (1944-1959)
Maurice Duplessis was Premier of Quebec from 1944-1959 and led the Union Nationale political party. He was a Quebec nationalist and believed that Quebec should be a distinctive society, that it should be a nation instead of a Canadian province. Soon Duplessis created a new flag just for Quebec that had the fleur-de-lys, which, was a French symbol. This pushed Canadians apart because soon people in Quebec wanted to be separate from Canada and Roman Catholic Church was defending Québec’s culture and right to be separate. In fact Priests encouraged people who lived in Quebec to turn their backs on the English speaking North American and …show more content…
They were denied voting rights before because they didn’t have enough property or got aid from the government or just not given an explanation and denied anyway. After the Military Voters Act, some Aboriginal people were given the right to vote if they were in the armed forced at present or in the past. However, after World War II, many Aboriginals had served Canada during the war and a parliamentary committee in 1948 said they should be able to vote. But First Nations refused to vote because it meant they had to give up the tax exemptions that were part of the rights the treaty provided. Then in 1960 John Diefenbaker extended the right to vote to First Nations people unconditionally. Including the First Nations in the politics of Canada and giving them more of a voice using the right to vote made Canada closer and put people on more equal footing. Now that Aboriginals had the right to vote, they could feel more close to Canada and accepting of it as their country. Additionally, other Canadians were more likely to see and respect Aboriginal people because they had the same right they had: to help decide who ran their