Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, commonly known as Wilfrid Laurie, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911, was the first French-speaking prime minister of Canada. He is often considered one of the country's greatest statesmen. He is well known for his policies of conciliation, expansion of Confederation, and compromise between French and English Canada. His policies and actions have helped Canada in various areas, including culture, diplomacy and economics. He is well known for his policies of conciliation, expansion of Confederation, and compromise between French and English Canada. His vision for Canada was a land of individual freedom and decentralized federalism. Since Wilfrid Laurier is a Francophone Prime Minister, the help he brought to unify the Anglophones and the French was significant. His compromise between French and English in Canada allows the two cultures to meet and thrive together. When Laurier finally triumphed in the 1896 election. The major issue at that time was the Manitoba School Question, a complex tangle of French and English language rights. The Manitoba schools issue hit all the hot spots of nineteenth-century Canadian politics: it was a French-English question, a Catholic-Protestant dispute, a conflict over the roles of the federal and provincial governments, and a struggle over the correct relationship between church and church. and the state. It brought down a federal government, and its shaky and ultimately short-lived resolution was a major defeat for the French language and Catholic education rights outside the province of Quebec. So the compromise action between these two languages ​​has effectively solved the problem of disunity in the education system. The Balancing Act Wi...... middle of paper ......in-Marcy Treaty, was a commercial treaty between Great Britain and the United States, applicable to British possessions in North America, including the United Province of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and the Colony of Newfoundland. It covered raw materials and was in effect from 1854 to 1865. It represented a step towards free trade and was opposed by protectionist elements in the United States. In 1911 the Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier managed to sign a reciprocity treaty with American President William Howard Taft. Conservatives made it the central issue of the 1911 election, igniting anti-American sentiment with dire warnings that the treaty would deliver the economy under American control. The Liberals were decisively defeated in the 1911 elections and the treaty was rejected by the new Conservative government led by Robert Borden.