Preliminary Proposal
| Conditions for joining Confederation
(What do you want?) |
Justification
(explain why you should get this & how might others benefit from it) |
| Intercolonial Railway-essly | +Create Jobs
+More traffic through Canada + improve the financial economy. “Build the road and Halifax will become one of the great emporiums of the world” -John A. MacDonald.
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| The Hudson’s Bay Company land-brendan
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+More farm land
+Don’t have to travel down to america “Throw down the barriers of trade and give us the control of market” -George Brown |
| Back with the Corn laws-jo | Rasing a higher tarrif in canda for our own grain against the other countrys to be able to benefit us. Fair trade to protect our own product |
| Better Boats-kiana | +cut through ice
+not have to use the united states railways ” A great country such as nature has destined this to be would not be justified in refusing to acquire a winter sea port” – Toronto Leader |
| Better Army | Trained army for better defense.
“threat of Fenian raids along the Canada-United States border” |
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