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Economic Nationalism*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Melville H. Watkins*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Abstract

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Type
Review Article/Article Critique
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1966

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Footnotes

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I am indebted to J. H. Dales and A. Rotstein for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article.

References

1 Cf. Drummond, Ian M., “Nationalists and Economists,” Canadian Forum, XLIV (1964).Google Scholar

2 Brown, Robert Craig, Canada's National Policy 1883-1900. A Study in Canadian-American Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964).Google Scholar

3 Cf. the writings of Dales, J. H. on the tariff, and particularly his “Some Historical and Theoretical Comments on Canadian Protectionism,” Queen's Quarterly, LXXI (1964).Google Scholar

4 A large subsidy was necessary to build the CPR in the 1880's, but would not have been required at a later time; the second and third transcontinentals were examples of over-building. On the former point, I have benefited from a term paper writen by John Cuddy.

5 On the decentralizing nature of electricity, see the writings of Marshall McLuhan. The study of the effects of electricity has been neglected in Canada in spite of the obvious importance of the topic; cf., however, Dales, J. H., Hydroelectricity and Industrial Development: Quebec 1898–1940 (Cambridge, Mass., 1957).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 On the latter point, see Porter, John, The Vertical Mosaic (Toronto, 1965)CrossRefGoogle Scholar and a two-part review thereof by Horowitz, Gad in Canadian Dimension, III (19651966).Google Scholar

7 Since writing this article, I have read Professor Brown's “Nationalism and the National Policy” (to be published shortly in a volume on Canadian nationalism edited by P. H. Russell). In that article, Professor Brown makes some of the same points as are made here; in particular, he recognizes the materialistic bias of the National Policy.