Different Groups in Canada View the Same Event in Different Way because different people have different view on the War different for example one person my like the idea of the man going to war to fight for his country and other people may not the like idea of it. During the First World War, the issue of conscription seriously split French and English Canadian. English Canadian favoured making man fight. French Canadian felt that the war was a European conflict and should not involve Canada. When conscription became a law, French Canadian’s English- language majority. Conscription became a unity issue again in the Second World War.
In stark contrast, French Canada felt removed from Britain’s plight. They felt little attachment to the Imperial mother country and viewed the Canadian army as an almost entirely English Canadian institution.French-English tensions were already running high; French Canadians were still enraged that Ontario has banned French as a language of instruction in its schools in 1913.Of the 400,000 Canadians who volunteered for service in WWI, fewer than one in 20 were French. Of English Canadian volunteers, 70% were recent immigrants from Britain.
On the other hand the English Canadian generally supported the war effort as they felt stronger ties to the British Empire. Virtually every French-speaking Member of Parliament opposed conscription, and almost all the English-speaking MPs supported it. The eight English-speaking provinces also endorsed Borden’s move, while the province of Québec opposed it. The federal election of 1917 was similarly divided. While neither French nor English Canadians were unanimous in their views on the subject, English Canada, broadly speaking, gave Borden his mandate to put conscription into effect. The process of call-ups began in January 1918. But out of the 401,882 men registered for conscription — and though certain exemptions from call-up were lifted in the spring of 1918 — only 124,588 men were added to the strength of the Canadian Expeditionary Force; only 24,132 of those made it to France by the war’s end.
In Constitution the French Canadian and English Canadian did not see Eye to Eye on Conscription.
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