POLI 243 Chapter 12: POLI 243 Chapter 12.docx
18 Apr 2013
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Chapter 12: sir john a. macdonald and the introduction of canada"s national. Free-er trade spread internationally, many economies adopting liberal trade policies. Increase in commodities due to transportation advances and increased productive capacity. Everyone else was pursuing protectionism, canada could remain open or retaliate. Industrial producers in canada were losing the us market, needed to grow domestically as a result. Land was abundant, but capital and labor were not. Landowners (farmers) expected to support free trade, industrial interests wanted protectionism. Cpr took longer and cost more than expected. Farmers and vendors in the west had no choice but to use it, and it cost them a lot: liberals argued for railway competition. Tories did not support immigrants, people kept moving to the us whenever its economy was stronger! Quebec nationalism created issues on trade policy. Both tories and liberals were interested in having tariffs, but disagreed on size and shape.
