Canada's Autonomy In The 1920s And 1930s

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Canadian Autonomy in the 1920’s and 1930’s

In the 1920’s and 1930’s Canada gained political and cultural autonomy, but lost economic autonomy. Canada gained political autonomy through the Halibut Treaty. The Halibut Treaty was the first treaty signed by Canada that was not signed in the presence of a British official. Clearly, Canada gained political autonomy if it was signing treaties independently. Conversely, Canada lost economic autonomy through the investments the United States made. In the 1920’s, close to 75% of the newspapers printed in Canada were exported to the United States. Certainly, Canada lost economic autonomy if so many of our resources were not being used for our own purposes, but for those in the United States. Nevertheless,