What was the policy known as the "National Policy" that dominated federal economic strategy from 1878?

• A Free trade with the United States, naval expansion, and agricultural subsidies
• B Income tax, social welfare, and public ownership of utilities
• C Protective tariffs, railway construction, and western immigration ✓
• D Imperial preference, gold standard, and municipal bond guarantees

Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy of 1879 combined high tariffs to protect industry, the CPR railway, and settlement of the West.