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Question: "Resolved, That the United States should form a Customs Union with Canada...
Question: "Resolved, That the United States should form a Customs Union with Canada...
Best general references: Goldwin Smith's Canada and the Canadian Question, pp. 281-301; The American, vol, XIII, pp. 375, 393, 407 and 408, and vol. XIV, pp. 37, 56 and 135; Handbook of Commercial Union (Toronto...
...Greater freedom of trade between the two countries is especially desirable because (1) Canada could furnish the United States with (a) needful raw materials such as coal, lumber and barley (b) a market for manufactured goods (2) International disputes, such as the fisheries, would be avoided...
...Customs Union would be economically harmful. (a) American and Canadian products are not supplementary but competitory. (b) Cheaper wages and cheaper raw material would be an inducement for our capital to move to Canada. (c) The result would be lower wages for the American...