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Union Government : Prime Borden returned to Canada from London in 1917 he was convinced that conscription would have to be introduced. Laurier understood the arguments behind conscription but also knew he could not support it.
Laurier was tempted to resign and step down as leader of the Liberals but an emotional and fraternal tie to the rights of the French Canadians and their opposition towardbeing forced to serve in a foreign war that really had no effect upon them, keep him in the game, if not to win, then for his place in posterity.
Borden also passed a Bill which gave the vote to the mothers, wives and sisters of the soldiers in the armed forces as well as prohibiting immigrants from German and Austria who had been in Canada for less than 15 years from voting. Borden formed hisUnion Government without Laurier but with many Liberal Cabinet Ministers and MP's and called and election at the end of the year running as the leader of the Union Government. The election of December 1917 became a decisive and divisive event.
The Union Government had taken in the Conservatives and Liberal from all across the country except in Quebec where it was virtually shut out. It wouldgovern for the rest of the war and had created a split between English and French.
Although the Union Government lasted until July 1920, Borden's retirement from politics became the event which dissolved the movement and many members returned to the Liberal party of joined a new party known as the Progressives.
Women get the vote
Women in Ontario were granted the right to vote in municipalelections in 1884 and provincially in Manitoba in 1916. In Federal elections the resistance to the vote only crumbled when the Conservatives determined that they had an issue which could be used to gain the women's vole for their party.
Borden formed a union government with support from English Canadian Liberals. The Conservatives had been elected in 1911 and their mandate extended with the support ofthe Liberals but as conscription came to the fore, Laurier refused to allow any additional extensions of Parliament without an election.
Borden realized that a large number of women in the country who had sons or brothers fighting already, supported conscription and if faced with a choice between the Liberals who opposed it and the Conservatives who were in favour of it, they would voteConservatives (or Unionist).
The Conservatives passed a Bill referred to as the Military Voters Act which gave the vote to just the bloc that would support them, the military wives and sisters and when election day came the Conservatives did indeed gain the major of the new women's vote and won the election.

Conscription Act
Borden appealed to Laurier to form a Union Government for the war in order topresent a united front and focus entirely on the war. The leader of the Liberal opposition realized that conscription was a deeply divisive issue in Quebec and that he could not in all good consciences support it. He brushed aside offers of a Union government if it meant that conscription would be brought in. 

Parliament convened and Borden pushed through the Conscription Act on July 11,1917,  with many Liberals from English Canada abandoning Laurier and joining Borden and his Conservatives. They also passed the Military Voters Act, and the War Times Election Act,  which granted the right to vote to women who were in the military, had a son in the military or a brother in the military.

These actions were of course intended to increase the vote in the upcoming election,  of the proempire, English based Conservative party. On August 28th, 1917 the Military Service Act was passed which subjected all able bodies males in Canada between 20 and 45 to compulsory military service. The exceptions were conscientious objectors, those necessary to vital industries and those whose absence would pose serious hardships for their families or themselves.
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