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John A Macdonald's National Policy Analysis
In 1876 John A. MacDonald created the National
Policy, which became the base of the Conservative election platform in 1878. John had returned to the office with a large majority. Since the voters agreed to MacDonald's vision and ideas. MacDonald believed the National Policy was a “formula for successful nation building”.

When John A. Macdonald had made an offer of
$25 million in cash, a land grant of 25 million acres, and a monopoly west of Lake Superior for
20 years, to George Stephen, Donald Smith, and
James J. Hill. In return the new CPR Syndicate was to complete the railway in 10 years. With the Syndicate in place, the path of the railway was altered.

The first year of construction hadn’t gone well. They only finished 230km in a
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