History 2125F/G Lecture Notes - Mercantilism, Canadian Business, Labour Candidates And Parties In Canada
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The state is always involved in the economy. G. d. taylor - the rise of canadian business. Craig heron - the canadian labour movement (3rd edition) Canada has thought about natural resources economies more than most other nations. Queens and toronto were the major universities in canada (they were still really small) Canadian economy emerged because we shipped raw materials to different countries. Someone had to buy the canadian goods eventually turns from europeans to americans buying our stuff. Canada is an undeveloped low value economy (it works because we don"t have a lot of people but we do have a lot of resources). Staples critics say that this economy had to go this way . Staples trap: narrow economies (controlled from somewhere else) they lack local control. Some were sophisticated and some were at least on par with the europeans. They knew were the resources were, and the first nations do not do badly for the beginning of.