Mais pour ne pas mettre la minorité, anglophone à ce moment-là, sous le contrôle de la majorité francophone, le Canada a été divisé en deux: le Haut-Canada et le Bas-Canada, avec une assemblée législative pour les deux Canada, assemblée législative élue par la population.
But so as not to put the minority, which was then English-speaking, under the French speaking majority, Canada was divided in two, Upper Canada and Lower Canada, with a legislative assembly for each part that was elected by the people. This was the first time that we had a legislative assembly directly controlled by the people and answerable only to the people.