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From the first explorers who claimed the land, to its present state, Canada has progressed through several stages of development. As suggested by W.W. Rostow’s Theory of Industrial Development, Canada has reached the highest level of maturity in all aspects, in ....

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.... provincial government had been developed. By 1850 the soon-to-be country had moved from the “traditional” stage to the transitional, or “pre-conditions” stage of development. Talks for unification began to increase, pushed by the British government’s pressure on Canada to form a customs union as well as a failed reciprocity with the United States. As a result, by 1867, the four colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec united as the Dominion of Canada. As a new nation, the government decided to impose tariffs on imported manufactured goods, as a way of protecting growing Canadian industries as well as raising govern ....