QC 3 a I Canada's Canal Problem and its D Solution "It is essential to the commercial Independence of Canada, perhaps prerequisite to the preservation of the political union of the Provinces, that we shall have, WITHIN OUR OWN BOUNDARIES, AND SUBJECT TO NO CONTROL BUT OUR OWN, the means of transporting the products of every part of our country to every other part, and also that we shall maintain all-Canadian routes by which the produce of all the Provinces may reach the world's markets." A Reply to the Toronto Board of Trade