POLS 3470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: High Standard Manufacturing Company, Intrawest, Labatt Brewing Company
11 Mar 2014
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Sir john a"s appealed to canadians at the time. Based on three pillars, tariffs; railways and immigration. Tariffs: to compete with cheaper imports coming in from the us or the uk. Immigration: outlets for those manufactured products, get immigrants to settle the west. Historic alienation that we see in western canada, national energy policy . Ottawa is there for the benefit of central canada not to westerns. In order to avoid tariffs, gradually decided to own and set up their own manufacturing companies. A lot of canadian companies have been sold off in recent years, some of our personal successful firms are making foreign investments elsewhere. National industrial structure pattern of production and distribution of goods and services in a given area; includes main characteristics and cleavages in network of economic activity. Tertiary sector, public administration all other services that are involved. Atlantic canada, high unemployment due to the seasonal employment of the fisheries.
