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Analyzing Borden's Arguments: Henri Bourassa

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2. a) The bias that Robert Borden believed that Henri Bourassa had, had been his nationality, Henri Bourassa being a French-Canadian nationalist. Adjourning why he had been against conscription, along with his two-million French-Canadians. Therefore, Henri Bourassa had been biased due to his fact of the support of the French-Canadian, himself being one of them. Also, in Quebec where the population had been mainly French-Canadians who had few ties of birth, blood or sentiment to Europe which had body explained why they did not support conscription.

b) Henri Bourassa had said “All Canadians who want to fight conscription…must have the courage to say….Canada has done enough.”, which had also closely tied with the other quote he had said, being “It is useless to disguise the truth: two million French-Canadians are united against conscription…”. This had shown Robert Borden, that he had been indeed biased towards the French-Canadians as he supported them, and was also one of them.

c) The bias that Henri Bourassa might believe that Robert Borden had,was his nationalistic attributes, he had been seen as a very patriotic character who had induced the idea of constantly aiding in the war effort even if it had not been in Canada’s frontline. …show more content…
He had prominently shown his patriotism in this as he stated that Canada should make it compulsory for every bodily-allied man to actively participate in the war effort, despite the constant spewing of resources and man power for the “European War”, he had believed this had been the only to uphold in the heavy casualties that had occurred previously, the act of conscription being the only viable

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