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Now don't cry ASB on me, hear me out first.

OTL, the Quebec Act did two things that pissed off the colonies. It gave everything north of the Ohio River and west of the Appalachians to the Hudson Bay Company, and extended the Irish Penal Acts to Canada.

But I was digging through the achieves of Parliament and discovered that the first reading of the Quebec Act was completely different from the one that eventually passed. It gave a fair portion of what became the North West Territory to Quebec, and actually loosened the restrictions on Catholicism in the colonies.

What happened to change the bill so much? News reached London that Guy Carleton's house had burnt down during a Canadian protest about religious discrimination.

So, what if the conciliatory version of the Quebec Act had passed and kept Canada neutral instead of swinging them firmly into the Patriot camp?

((OOC: Hopefully I've done the DBWI thing right this time, PoD is as I've described.))
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