Louis Riel led an armed insurrection against the government of Canada. He had a trial and defended himself, the result was a conviction and a fit and appropriate sentence for the time. French education was kept out of Ontario because everyone was British or of British heritage, there was no need for it. 

I belong to the Orange Lodge and do you think for one second with all of those human rights tribunals and left-wing hurt feelings investigators it would still be here if it was anti Catholic?