POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Free Trade, Policy, John A. Macdonald
18 Apr 2013
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Once the war is over, the tariffs stay. Put tariffs to guarantee market and profit in face of competition. Subsidized by the government (land, money: settlement of the western provinces regional specialization from within the country. Intended to support economic development, just without relying on international trade: legislations beings in 1879, tariffs protect industrial goods right away, settlements policies are too weak immigrants are refugees from. Europe unskilled labor, have no money: people leave more than they come in, cpr crosses the continent, also exercises monopolistic powers. The selection and implementation of the national policy: system-level: us policies constrained choices, domestic-level: trade cleavages visible in elections, manufacturing needs protection, bureaucratic politics: tariffs as revenue. Ideas: classical liberalism challenged by crisis of the 1870s. Laurier is pm for 15 years he was excellent at compromises/consensus. Change rate to cross grain from the west.
