AHC: American Social views in Canada and Western Europe?

American Social views were more conservative than in Canada and Western Europe.

Try to make America's social views be the same in Canada and Western Europe
 
What if Trudeau senior has a transformative moment after the October crisis? He decides its necessary to combine racial integration, with very conservative social values, It might lead to a Reagan style social revolution in Canada?
 
What if Trudeau senior has a transformative moment after the October crisis? He decides its necessary to combine racial integration, with very conservative social values, It might lead to a Reagan style social revolution in Canada?

For the most part, Reagan's "conservative social values" were advanced via devolution of power and de-fanging the courts. For Trudeau to go that route, he'd have to end up as a totally different guy from what he was IOTL. Basically, a repudiation of everything he'd believed in since entering intellectual life.

I think the OP scenario requires a POD pre-1900. Maybe a combination of local revolt against the British with a much stronger slave economy, for starters. And probably different religious configurations.
 
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More successful temperance movements in the UK and Canada seems like an interesting place to start. They did get at least some traction throughout the Anglosphere, so the social effects of actual Prohibition could lead to interesting places.
 
OTL slavery was not profitable in Canada's climate. Some French Canadian elites imported a handful of "house slaves" to flaunt their wealth .... and United Empire Loyalists brought a few slaves north with them, but quickly learned that it was frightfully expensive to feed idle slaves during Canada's long winters.

WI?
As for natives (Beotuck, Migmaw, Abenaki, Huron, Sioux, Inuit, Cree, Haida, etc.) Trudeau offered them seats in Parliament during the 1960s .... to dilute Québécois claims of "two founding nations"?

WI Sikhs or Chinese gained significant political power on the West Coast?
WI Chinese-Canadians provided labour battalions during WW1?
WI Sikhs enlisted in large enough numbers to form fighting battalions?
Would Chinese and Sikhs be able to leverage war-time sacrifices into seats in Parliament during the Trudeau era?

As for Prohibition .... OTL American. upper-crust ladies started the Women's' Christian Temperance movement to break drunks of bad habits they had learned in their homelands. Americans used Prohibition to oppress heavy-drinking immigrants from Italy or Germany during WW1. Sober workers also made better factory workers as the USA and Canada industrialized during the 20th century.
 
Depending on the province. It was in for 47 years in PEI, 11 years in Ontario, and 10 years in New Brunswick. Some municipalities still have it.
It still has a bit of a legacy. In Ontario, for instance, alcohol is highly regulated.

Points taken.

Keep Pierre Trudeau out. His social reforms, like a lot of his reforms, helped to shape Canada, and without him, Canada will be much more right-wing.

This would do it.
 
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