Question

How did Sir John A McDonald and the conservative party combine a tariff, and railway and immigration policy to transform Canada?(300-400 words)

Answer 1

The prime minister john a McDonald's policy had 3 main initiatives

First was railway linking the Atlantic to the Pacific meant more than running engines. It meant running stimulus for heavy industries.Building and adapting railways, steelworks, and engineering operations might begin with native-born labour, but that would soon run out.Also the steel mills of Ontario and Quebec would be the principle beneficiaries and another was the engineering sector.

And the Answer to that was retaining people in country and when that strategy failed or was not enough then came second initiative immigration or we can say that encouraging people in other countries to move in Canada. Immigration was a key piece of national policy.It was first used to beef up the supply of wage labour in expanding industries in the central and eastern provinces.

Third there were tariffs, farming population would need supplies and equipment. Ideally, this material would be shipped west to them on the same railway that carried their grain output eastward. Tariff barriers would ensure that Western farmers, home builders, and businesses would purchase their supplies from central Canadians.These tariffs would sustain central Canadian industries and that would benefit other immigrants in terms of jobs.The tariff placed cheap imports from the United States at a disadvantage to protect embryonic Canadian industries.