alternatehistory.com

In the early 20th century, America offered Canada a free trade agreement which the Liberals under Laurier eagerly agreed to. They spent some time writing out the treaty and had it finished by 1911.

Now the reciprocity treaty aroused quite a bit of contreversy and although the Liberals easily had another two more years to their mandate, they decided to bet on it and ran an election on the issue. This back fired and they lost. It should be noted that the agreement passed in the US congress.

Now my WI is this. What if Laurier and the Liberals see the writing on the wall (they lost seats in the last election) and decide to just go for it and sign the treaty. Canada gets free trade with the United States 87 years earlier.

How does this affect Canadian-American relations? Canadian-British relations? the British Empire as a whole?
Top