Canada’s Protective Tariff : What It Is; How It Is Worked; Who Gets the Benefit

Edward Porritt was an English author and editor whose work focussed on trade and governance in Canada and Great Britain. In this volume he continues his long-standing critique of protectionism in Canadian trade law, arguing for free trade and praising grain-growing co-operatives for their efforts to create a selling/exporting model that benefits producers. Porritt makes his argument in Marxist terms, urging readers to reject the self-interested trade laws of the “privileged class” and condemning Canada’s government as a “bastard or spurious system of socialism” (32). Amidst these criticisms, he singles out prairie grain-growers as a vanguard in the struggle against protectionism.