sentences:  It is during this time that he takes on him to defend the settlers right to cut trees and provide information to the Commission de la colonisation of 1904.In 1905, he began a campaign in favour of public compulsory education (it would become law under Premier Adélard Godbout in the 1940s).The November 26, 1915, Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence, offered Asselin the honorary rank of Colonel, which entailed raising a battalion for the Canadian Expeditionary Force.