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When the terms of the CPR Charter were announced to parliament in 1880, the leader of the opposition, Sir Wilfred Laurier, asked: “What great calamity has befallen this country that the Government should be compelled to surrender unconditionally to the (CPR) Syndicate”1. But in 1880, Sir Wilfred Laurier had no comprehension of the true magnitude […]
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