NATIONAL POLICY

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN

• attract imigrants
• protect budding industries through tariffs
• build national transportation networks

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD

• completed in 1885
• built mostly with British capital
• allowed Western prarie lands to participate in trade
• stimulated a national economy

Results

• Indigenous people resented the encroachments on their land
• The ability to control and direct the economy increased.
• industrial and agricultural production boomed
• population increased due to migrants and natural increase