It was done in wartime. Opposition to conscription had plunged Canada into crisis. So the government of Prime Minister Robert Borden acted, divisively and duplicitously, pandering to patriotism while playing on prejudice, giving yet taking. Just before the Dominion’s 13th federal election, in 1917, the Tories passed two bills, The Wartime Elections Act and The … Continue reading When Ukrainian Canadians lost the right to vote
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When Ukrainian Canadians lost the right to vote
It was done in wartime. Opposition to conscription had plunged Canada into crisis. So the government of Prime Minister Robert Borden acted, divisively and duplicitously, pandering to patriotism while playing on prejudice, giving yet taking. Just before the Dominion’s 13th federal election, in 1917, the Tories passed two bills, The Wartime Elections Act and The … Continue reading When Ukrainian Canadians lost the right to vote