As well, the party sought to take control of civil services such as the executive council, which advised the sitting governor-general.

However, in 1828, he was replaced because of a negative report given by members of parliament comprising British reformers who sought to make peace with the Lower Canadian Assembly.

Kempt's time in office briefly eased tensions between the Patriot Party and the existing government.

The French and the English living in Lower Canada became increasingly polarized from one another, as tensions continue to grow.

It was under his belief that peace could best be achieved by ensuring a loyal English majority in British North America, as well as by anglicizing French Canadians, and by granting responsible government.

[7] The union was also proposed to solve pressing financial issues in Upper Canada, which had become increasingly indebted [8] under the previous regime dominated by the Family Compact.

It was hoped that by merging the two colonies, the French-Canadian cultural presence in North America would gradually disappear through assimilation.

On the 10 of February 1841, it was declared in Montreal, officially marking the beginning of the newly formed Province of Canada.

One of the main provisions of the act was establishing a single parliament with an equal number of seats per region.

The granting of responsible government to the colony is typically attributed to reforms in 1848 (principally the effective transfer of control over patronage from the governor to the elected ministry).

The reforms resulted in the appointment of the second Baldwin-Lafontaine government that quickly removed many of the disabilities on French-Canadian political participation in the colony.

By the late 1850s, massive immigration from the British Isles to Canada West changed the previous demographic imbalance between the English and French sections of the colony.

In the end, the Act of Union failed at shutting down French Canadian political influence, especially after responsible government was granted to the colony.

The government of Lafontaine-Baldwin succeeded in repealing the measure against the French language in the assembly, the courts, and the civil administration.