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2 THE RURAL VOICE
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The issues of 1874
remain today
Excerpts from a biography of Sir
John A. Macdonald prove that "what
goes around, comes around". In 1874
the country was in a terrible depression
and, as today, the Americans were not
only protecting their farmers but were
dumping their commodities into
Canada (sound familiar?).
Excerpts from the biography show
that Macdonald was trying to impose
tariffs on imports to provide revenue
for the government and protect
Canadian industry: "...One of
Macdonald's first tasks was to prove to
the Canadian farmer that the policy of
'incidental protection' has been
designed just as much in his interest as
in that of the industrial enterpriser. It
was true, of course — and he admitted
it freely — that Canada was on an
export basis so far as wheat and flour
was concerned, and that the prices of
these commodities were largely set in
the international market at Liverpool.
But he insisted that Canadian coarse
grains were in another and quite
different category. They could be
protected, as they were already
protected in the United States; and their
protection would give to the Canadian
farmer his own local market, while at
the same time the protection of
manufacturers would ensure that
market's steady enlargement through
the growth of Canadian industry...
... On the one hand, Canada lay
open to the dumping of American
goods; on the other, the United States
was securely guarded against Canadian
imports, despite the repeated efforts of
the Dominion to negotiate a new trade
treaty on mutually advantageous
terms."?
At least Sir John was very aware of
the problem and actually did something
about it, compared to the present
regime that turned its back on
agriculture and alienated the Canadian
West in the last election. It was very
clear that Sir John A. had a vision of