A Conjunction of Interests : : Business, Politics, and Tariffs, 1825-1879 / / J.B.B. Forster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Forster, J.B.B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

The advent of the National Policy in 1879 brought dramatic changes in the structure, magnitude, and objectives of Canada's tariff policy. No longer used primarily as a source of revenue for the government, tariffs on imported goods assumed a role as protector of Canadian industry against the encroachment of foreign imports on the Canadian market.In this detailed account of events leading up to the adoption of the National Policy, Ben Forster explores a wide range of political and economic forces and races their influence on successive Liberal and Conservative governments. He examines the pamphlet literature of the protectionists, the private corespondence of political leaders and protectionists, the public press of the day, and legislative journals and other public documents. He weaves the threads of various interests - business, industry, agriculture, and government - into a comprehensive account of the growth of protectionist feeling in Canada.Forster's analysis illuminates a critical chapter in Canadian political history, one with implications for current discussions on import "as, industrial policy, and free trade

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Protection in an era of colonial transition, 1825–1854 -- 2. Continuity and change: Making tariffs in the late 1850s -- 3. Larger markets, 1860-1866: Reciprocity and Confederation -- 4. From a conciliatory to a national policy, 1867–1872 -- 5. The obscurity of private enterprise’: Business and the economy, 1870–1879 -- 6. ‘An age of combination and association’, 1870–1879 -- 7. The Liberal interregnum, 1874–1876 -- 8. The Liberal interregnum, 1876–1878 -- 9. The interests, the parties, and the election of 1878 -- 10. ‘Reconciling a legion of conflicting interests’ -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index