Commercial Union
Complete and entire free trade with the United
States, first proposed by Ira Gould, before Montreal Board of Trade,
February, 1852. (See Montreal Gazette, Feb. 18-22, 1852.) The
question was repeatedly discussed in succeeding years, down to 1890, in
and out of Parliament, and for a time was adopted by the Liberal party
as a trade policy, but abandoned before they came into power in 1896.