Petite histoire de l'aliénation de l'Ouest
The rise of western alienation ... again: When it comes to anger in the west, history keeps repeating itself
The year was 1878, and Prime Minister John A. Macdonald had a plan, a glorious plan to build a country that was “allied together,” more than just a collection of provinces.
He was going to do it via a three-part strategy of immigration, building a railway to British Columbia and a system of tariffs to protect central Canadian business from the depredations of American competitors, creatin...