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Excerpt from The Principle of Sectarianism in the Constitution of Canada
The proposal for Confederation had often been mooted before, but in 1864 circumstances were exceptionally favourable for its realization. There was the dead-lock in the legislative affairs of the two Canadas; there was the aggressive attitudetof certain parties in the United States, and, as it happened, the Maritime Provinces ati the suggestion of Mr. Tupper, then Premier of Nova Scotia, was about to meet to consider a union of their own. That was the situation of affairs when George Brown, the leader of the Ontario Liberals, approached the Macdonald Cartier Government with a proposal to unite their forces and carry through a scheme of Confederation for all the provinces of British north-america. The macdonald-cartier Government took up the scheme a Coalition government was formed, in which Sir E. P. Taché was Prem1er, and Macdonald.
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