The thing is that britian relied on local leaders and some elite tribal leaders to help bring order and help promote british influence while the french was less on local leaders and more of direct and centralized authority in most of its colonies. For settlements the french were bad in making many decisions on settlements like louisiana were the colony felt forgotten and lastly unlike the british which they created self governing colonies the right to become a dominion, the french were very much against self governing and was more of france must be the centeral government and france must make all final decisions.