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OCR: PRESSURE AT HOME By 1910 Laurier was under pressure from rural Canada For fifteen years he had only made minor tariff adjustments until calls for freer trade mounted from the growing number of western Canadian farmers the government Support freer trade or drift along, content with the protectionist National Policy At the same time Quebec nationalists, led by Henri Bourassa accused Laurier of abandoning French educat tion rights in Manitoba Alberta, pue Saskatchewan and of Supporting British imperialism Bourassa won crucial 1910 Quebec by-election pue aligned himself with English-Canadian Tories to fight Laurier Liberals BIOGRAPHY of iwestern Would suppor itionalists Henr ition right himseli Canadiar tight

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