2 mar 1923 año - The Halibut Treaty (Political)

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Who:
Canada (Prime Minister Mackenzie King) and the United States

What:
The treaty was a Canadian-American agreement on fishing rights in the Pacific Ocean.

Where:
The Imperial Conference of 1923 in London, U. K.

Why:
There was a large scale of commercial fishing of halibut, putting halibut at risk of being overfished. This treaty was to protect halibut stocks on the northwest coast of North America.

How:
This treaty was signed without the presence of a British official, although usually Britain negotiates and signs treaties on Canada’s behalf. Prime Minister King convinced Britain to allow this by arguing that this matter affected only Canada and America.

This was significant because it was the first treaty that Canada had negotiated and signed completely independent from the British. This was the beginning of Canada becoming an autonomous sovereign state. It was one of Prime Minister King’s major steps to making Canada a more independent country. Canada became less dependent on its mother country. This also led to the signing of the Balfour Report, which was signed at the Imperial Conference of 1926 and stated that all British colonies would be autonomous countries within the British Empire, but still united by an allegiance to Britain. This may not have happened if PM King did not insist upon Canada signing the Halibut Treaty without Britain’s presence.

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