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http://montrealgazette.com/feature/the-legacy-of-canadas-wwi-conscription-crisis-quebec-nationalism

But as Canadians were fighting the Germans, back home the country was at war 
with itself. For the first time since Confederation, Quebec politicians were 
explicitly suggesting French-Canadians might be better off alone.

“One can say 1917 was a turning point,” said University of Ottawa historian 
Pierre Anctil. “It instilled a sense of suspicion and distance. And I think it 
did irreparable damage.”

Before the two independence referendums of the ’80s and ’90s that nearly tore 
the country apart, there was the 1917-18 conscription crisis.


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