ABSTRACT
Canada was economically dependent on the United States; and the tariff mongers of the Republic had endeavoured in many ways to assert an economic suzerainty. The economic relations between Canada and the United States are of much the same character as those between Scotland and England in the seventeenth century. Scotland made the same demand for commercial intercourse with England as Canada has sought to and in vain from the United States. The short experience of free trade which Scotland had during the Commonwealth period may be compared with Canada's golden age of Reciprocity. Canada, like Scotland, was the poorer northern neighbour, and was economically tributary to the Southron. Sir Charles Tupper's contention was that Canada, by developing her own resources, and more particularly by building the trans-continental railroad, had done her duty and her whole duty by the Empire.
