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This 6 page paper examines a chapter written by Janine Brody. The chapter explores Canada's National Policy during the 1800s. An overview of the article and author's main points are conveyed. The URL attached to the chapter is provided in the bibliography.
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a westward bias and it would also have a different meaning for the west, seeing it as something that was an export economy (Brodie 118). In some way, the west
was being used for what it could do for the rest of the nation. Brodie concludes: "In sum, while the National Policy was sold as a development strategy that would
bring prosperity to all the partners of the Confederation, its impact was decidedly spatial, leaving in its wake a deindustrialized east, an industrialized centre and a primary-exporting western hinterland. These
spatial distributions in the form and level of economic activity had specific implications for the early patterns of politics in Canada" (118). Brodie not only makes this statement, he backs
it up with a great deal of fact. In this comprehensive chapter, there is attention to the specifics of various industries and the impact of the policy on them. How
the policy impacts various regions is the focus of the inquiry. Clearly, the different political and economic aspects of the National Policy of which Brodie writes, did have a different
impact in different portions of Canada. Of course, this is not surprising as policy does have different effects when nations are not homogenous. Canada is made up of various regions
with different needs and interests. Industries tend to form where there is a need. It would be na?ve to think that policy will effect all equally. Yet, Brodie states that
this is what its intent was. Although it is true that there might have been a bias anyway and that it was unintentional, Brodie seems to argue that the
bias was definitely intentional (114). She explains that for example the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) had been important to the economic and political integration of the Federation but there had
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