Grievances+Against+the+British+(Lower+Canada)

= ASSIMILATION =

The British had power. They had wealth, they had a monarch, and they had control. Control in a way that the Canadiens never would. Who wants control over their own life, anyways? But the wealthy people, of Britain and of Canada, hardly noticed anything wrong at all. The politicians were happy, the wealthy were happy, of course those are the only demographics that matter, right? In a fictional account of Frances Monck's reflection on her trip to Canada, she writes "The people I met were all quite well off, they all owned land and businesses, nothing could have been wrong behind that mask, could it? I mean, I met so many people! How could I have missed out on something like people being unsatisfied with… well, with me? With us? That’s a pretty large problem, isn’t it? How could that ever be covered up? Unlike back here in the United Kingdom, there is such poverty here, it is really quite saddening."

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