International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility by Michael J. Hiscox

Author:Michael J. Hiscox [Hiscox, Michael J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780691214863
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

8.1 TRADE POLITICS IN CANADA FROM UNION TO CONFEDERATION

After the Act of Union in 1840, which united Upper and Lower Canada, the beginnings of a Canadian party system emerged, and rough distinctions were made between Conservatives and Liberals in the British tradition. With MacDonald’s Tories dominating politics in the early nineteenth century, trade policy was shaped significantly by patronage and group pressures (Coleman 1988, 19; Forster 1986, 17–18; Ethier 1988, 224). The chief supporters of free trade were grain growers and timber producers in the western provinces, while farmers in the eastern provinces, and the iron and textile industries, lobbied vigorously for protection.1 Industry and regional divisions appear to have cut across broad factor classes (Palmer 1983, 20).

TABLE 8.1

Anticipated and Observed Outcomes in Canada

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