 Later that year, Newfoundland attended the Quebec Conference, called by John A. Macdonald to discuss a greater British North America union.The two Newfoundland delegates, Frederick Carter and Ambrose Shea, returned in favour of a union with Canada.However, Confederation was highly unpopular with the Newfoundland public, and the Government of Newfoundland did not send representatives to the London Conference of 1866, in which the British government and the colonies agreed to the terms the "British North America Act".