empire-binding

Updated: June 11, 2025

As a matter of fact, the empire-binding value of tariff preference was greatly exaggerated by its advocates. The Laurier-Fielding preference was a real bond of imperial unity simply because it was a free-will offering, given from motives of sentiment, not of profit.

Oscar Douglas Skelton - The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time