No Canadian political and economic issue is as contentious, persistent, and long-running as the struggle between free trade and protection. A concise account of that issue from 1840 to the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement provides essential historical background to the impending high-stakes renegotiation of NAFTA with the erratic Trump administration. The record clearly […]
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Free trade kills marriage hopes
Free trade is a bit like religion: economists agree it would be a good thing, if it were practiced as much as it’s preached. In the nineteenth century, there was as much preaching against free trade as for it. One of the anti-free trade preachers was Toronto’s Mail and Empire, as seen in this satire, […]
Tough times blamed on National Policy
Winnipeg’s main street in 1894. Tough times were blamed on the high costs of John A. Macdonald’s National Policy, but with a plethora of bachelors, men were said to be excited about the prospect of boatloads of buxom young English women. Glenbow Archives NA-118-24. Free trade 1840-1894 A correspondent for the Regina Standard, December 7, […]
History of fierce Can-Am free trade and protection issue backgrounds high-stake NAFTA renegotiation
No Canadian political and economic issue is as contentious, persistent, and long-running as the struggle between free trade and protection. A concise account of that issue from 1840 to the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement provides essential historical background to the impending high-stakes renegotiation of NAFTA with the erratic Trump administration. The record clearly confirms […]