Laurier's Canada
1. Laurier: First French Canadian Prime Minister
2. Canada-U.S. relations
3. Canada-Great Britain relationship
5. Economic Growth: uneven, setting the scene for later regional disparity
6. Diverse Ethnicity, but racist attitudes and class system based on industrial development
7. Political clash between Conservative protectionism and Liberal reciprocity. Canadian values are British or American?
8. Industrialization: Rural depopulation and need for social reforms, Social Gospel
9. Ideological forces: nationalism vs imperialism and political protectionism from American influences, e.g. Alaska Boundary dispute
- Manitoba School Question: Compromise with respect to English-French relations.
- Bilingual schools across Canada: Sir Clifford Sifton resigned in opposition.
- Dream of bilingual Canada gives way to attempted policy of assimilation.
2. Canada-U.S. relations
- Reciprocity views quashed
- Protectionist views prevail
3. Canada-Great Britain relationship
- Laurier sought greater independence from GB; Canada first, Empire second
- Boer War: Volunteers ok but GB had to pay
- French Canada opposed to yet another imperial war
- westward expansion according to Macdonald's National Policy expanded: western settlement and multicultural immigration program
- effective split into western and eastern Canada with different attitudes towards the nation as a whole
5. Economic Growth: uneven, setting the scene for later regional disparity
6. Diverse Ethnicity, but racist attitudes and class system based on industrial development
7. Political clash between Conservative protectionism and Liberal reciprocity. Canadian values are British or American?
8. Industrialization: Rural depopulation and need for social reforms, Social Gospel
9. Ideological forces: nationalism vs imperialism and political protectionism from American influences, e.g. Alaska Boundary dispute