72 CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.

CHAPTER 1V,

THE RESULTS OF THE POLICY.

WE have shown that Canada regards the idea
of a preferential tariff with Great Britain as a
strictly business matter into which no Imperial
sentiment can enter, We have also shown that her
desire to entertain the idea is caused by the fact
that her present policy is to improve her trade
by entering into commercial treaties with other
countries. Treating it, therefore, as a matter of
business which will be accepted or rejected according
 as it is profitable or the reverse, it is
important to know along what lines Canada is
prepared to negotiate—what concessions she is
prepared to make, and what she expects to get in
return.
The concrete advantages that, it is alleged, might
accrue to Canada from a preference in the British
market are four. They are as follows :—
(1) In wheat growing it might place her in a
position of superiority over the United States,
at present her chief competitor in the British
market. (2) It might turn the stream of immigration
 from the agricultural States of the Union into
Canada. (3) It might increase the home market.
(4) It might help to divert the natural flow of