HISC46H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Annexin, International Trade
Document Summary
Trade, commerce and canadian imperialism in the caribbean and latin america. Today"s topics: major themes that have shaped canada"s international trading relationships historically, canadian imperialism in the british caribbean/west indies, c. 1870-1919, canada needs a hawaii : contemporary canadian interest in acquiring caribbean territory. Central themes shaping the history of canada"s international trade: a resource-based economy that is heavily export dependent, and the need to find markets, by 1867, the colonial pattern was a central feature of the colonial economies a. i. Canada imported foreign products; exported domestic products: reciprocity, preferences, and protectionism, connection between protectionism and nation-building. There is no policy more consistent with what we call the dark ages of the world than that of protection as a principle. There is no principle more consonant with the advance of human freedom, no principle more in accordance with the great prosperity that prevails in our time than absolute freedom of commerce.
