Maybe keep the French around, they were not big coloniser and (as far as I know) had no problem with colonist hooking up with natives
Asside from the fact that it doesn't respect the term of the challenge the very fact they weren't a big coloniser made them staying ASB.
Since the Metis where included having Riel succeed could be a good start.
The definition of membership is already about as exanded as it resonably can be in otl Canada, to the point where I have a blonde haired blue eyed fair skinned friend with a status card.You have several options.
1) Increase the food supply and hope for the best.
2) Have the culture set the goal of increasing the population by whatever means come to hand.
3) Create an event or program that causes the population to increase either as an incentive or as the consequence of a unique cultural event.
4) Expand the definitions of membership in these cultures and increase the population by intermarriage with outsiders.
5) Do a combination of the above.
6) ASB
HOPE THIS HELPS.
France retaining Canada is not ASB. Not only could the war have gone differently, but IOTL the British supposedly even offered Canada back if the French would cede Guadeloupe.
It still requires a PoD a full century before what's allowed in this scenario.France retaining Canada is not ASB. They could have won the battle of the Plains of Abraham with a better strategy. Alternatively, IOTL the British supposedly even offered Canada back during the peace negotiations, if the French would cede Guadeloupe instead.
Whoops - missed that part.It still requires a PoD a full century before what's allowed in this scenario.
Britain gets screwed somehow, and can't support the colonists, so instead it sets up native puppet states that develop sort of on their own
I dislike the terminology of 'assimilated' (that's a very iffy word here in regards to natives), but earlier urbanisation might help. Was planning a general earlier urbanisation of the nation in general, and an important of Indian labour sooner (for cheaper railroad construction), so more multi-ethnic cities could see earlier Native urbanisation?How about, natives get assimilated earlier and become a permanent underclass analogous to African Americans in the United States, whose population growth exceeds that of the whites due to a combination of poverty and a conservative stance on birth control inherited from Catholic missionaries? With a larger, urban population, they form a significant voting bloc which helps to put a socialist government in power, creating a robust welfare state which raises the standard of living for most poor Canadians, natives among them.