HUMA 1740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Western Settlement
23 Jan 2018
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Rise and fall of laurier liberalism/the great war: the conservative party had dominated canadian politics holding power for. 6 years since confederation: national policy failed- introduced in 1879. It included a tariff, import tax, construction of trans continental rail road. They felt that a free trade policy will ruin the relationship with the british government: laurier realized that free trade was not popular. The first thing the liberals did was abandon their old policy when they got into office: laurier convinced the government of manitoba to amend its school laws and allow a little bit of religion topics in the schools. Although he was opposed to separate funding, he was able to secure some concessions for the. French minority canadians in manitoba: war began in 1899 when britain tried to take over 2 republics in south. Britain requested the assistance of its colonies including canada. They wanted to go to war against the dutch republics.
