See bottom for election coverage.
All groups should have completed the pink booklet about official power during the period, 1791-1840. Only the sec. 5's are without the corresponding notes, their binders and their texts, as they were in D417 during the evacuation. We will pick up where we left off on Tuesday, day 8. I will post the notes by Monday. Come collect your books around 8:45, Tuesday morning.
Sec. 4's: If you have your texts, please read pp. 123-130. This will help you to understand what we'll do with lightning speed. It corresponds to p. 3 & 4 of your homework AND it will help you with your essay. Pages 131-133 are also important, if you want to move ahead. Pay specific attention to the picture on page 131. How are the people expressing their demands to the colonial authority? This was illegal at the time!
Next week: We will finish notes about how the Constitutional Act, 1791, established a government structure that created the "illusion" of democracy. In fact, it created tensions and power struggles between the legislative assembly and the Governor and his councils. In the assembly, a party developed that wanted to reform government and make it "responsible" to the electorate. The growing problems in power relations was ONE of the causes of the rebellion in Lower Canada, 1837.
Read about Thursday's (Apr. 3) student protests in Montreal, here. Also, read this "look back" at the Quebec election campaign, which was mostly painful and acrimonious.
Some stats about this election from this CBC website: Could show up as bonus questions!
- Quebec's chief electoral office reported a voter turnout of almost 53 per cent as of 5:30 p.m.
- More than a million Quebecers cast votes in the advance polls (about 20%)
- Across Quebec, a total of 814 candidates are running for election
- 6,012,440 people are registered to vote
- This is the second time Quebecers have gone to the polls in the past 19 months.
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