Canada Past and Present: A Citizenship Education Guide

PERSPECTIVES ON CONFEDERATION GRAPHIC ORGANIZER Fill in the blank boxes to take note on why some groups would be in favour of Confederation and some would be against it. Reasons in favour of Confederation (What were some reasons people wanted Confederation?) Reasons against Confederation (What were some reasons people didn’t want Confederation?) Outcome(s) in 1867 (What happened in regards to these reasons after Confederation? Was there compromise on some issues?) To protect British North American from becoming part of the United States Even though there were a few advocates of joining the United States, at Confederation, Canada became its own country and not part of the US Some groups believed Confederation would take power away from the provinces and give it to the federal government Power was distributed between the federal government and provincial governments, and the federal government committed to giving each region an equal voice