POLI 243 notes March 5 - March 5th 2009 POLI 243 Intl Econ Relations The Reciprocity Election of 1911 Lauriers failure to liberalize trade Liberals

March 5 th , 2009 POLI 243 – Int’l Econ Relations The Reciprocity Election of 1911 Laurier’s failure to liberalize trade Liberals Reinterpret the National Policy - 1896 Laurier leads the Liberals to power; promises more liberalized trade and finding export markets for Canada - Crow’s Nest Pass Agreement o First alteration to the National Policy – negotiated an agreement with CPR to actually do what it was supposed to do (less exercise of monopolistic powers)  Lower rates for settlers to travel to the provinces, lower rates for farmers to ship grain, required them to either use or sell the land they had been given…  In general, made the CPR actually serve the purposes it had originally been intended to - Laurier’s government seeks more immigrants o Advertising in Eastern Europe, setting up offices abroad to attract immigrants o Clifford Sifton appointed to oversee this – he decides that they will only go after people who already know how to farm; they are offering farmers ownership of