CANADIAN CONDITIONS.

where she finds a ready market for it. She
will not long continue, however, to export her
iron and steel raw. Wherever there is good water
power large manufacturing works are arising,
some of them belonging to Canadian and a few
to American firms, so that already Canada is
supplying most of her own wants and is even
beginning to invade the British market. The conception
 of Canada as an Imperial farm which shall
also imperially consume our manufactures to an
unlimited extent, must be dismissed as erroneous,
Thus it is clear that before many years have
elapsed Canada will be seeking markets for her
manufactured goods as well as for her food and
raw products,
Further free traders contend that protection must
diminish the purchasing power of the inhabitants of
Great Britain. This result would materially diminish
the value of Great Britain as a market for Canadian
exports, and so once again injure the Canadian
producer.

CANADA AS A MARKET FOR BRITISH GOODS.
The probable fate of the present preference to
British goods will be discussed in a subsequent
chapter, although on it hangs the whole nature of
the trade that Britain will be able to do in the
Canadian market, As we have just said, the
Canadian looks forward just as keenly to the
industria] development of Eastern Canada as he
does to the agricultural future of the North-West,