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Military Voters Act
The Military Voters Act was a World War I piece of Canadian legislation passed in 1917, giving the right to vote to all Canadian soldiers. The Act was significant for swinging the newly enlarged military vote in the Union Party's favour, and in that it gave a large number of Canadian women the right to vote for the first time.
==Background==
With the Conscription Crisis of 1917 in full swing, Prime Minister Robert Borden was anxious to produce a solution to the manpower problem that Canada had been experiencing as the war drew on. With the main opposition to conscription coming from his French-speaking ministers, the Prime Minister favoured the creation of a coalition government of Conservatives and Liberals.〔Douglas Francis, Destinies: Canadian History Since Confederation (Scarborough: Nelson, 2004). p. 232〕 It was believed that this was the best means to introduce mandatory service in the military. Although Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Liberal party leader, understood the need for a coalition government in order to withstand the war, he was opposed to the implementation of conscription.〔 Prime Minister Borden, however, was able to convince several key Liberal members to join his Union government.〔Douglas Francis, Destinies: Canadian History Since Confederation (Scarborough: Nelson, 2004). p. 233〕 It was prior to the dissolution of Parliament that two bills were created to increase Borden’s chances of getting the coalition government elected. The bills were the Wartime Elections Act and the Military Voters Act.〔Desmond Morton, A Short History of Canada (Toronto: McClellan and Stewart Ltd, 2001). p. 186〕
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