sentences:  Bédard saw the legislative assembly as the only government body that represented the people of Lower Canada and so he resented the unchecked power wielded by the appointed councils and government ministers; he felt that ministers should be held accountable to the assembly.He also believed that judges should be kept independent from politics and so should not be allowed to sit in the legislative assembly.He was arrested and imprisoned in 1810 on the orders of Governor James Henry Craig for treasonable activities because of his association with "Le Canadien"; he was released in March the following year.