With the victory of Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals in the 1896 Canadian election, Cartwright returned to Cabinet but was denied the finance ministry as a means of assuring Canada's business community that the government was not going to adopt free trade.
With the victory of Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals in the 1896 election, Cartwright returned to Cabinet. Laurier denied Cartwright the finance ministry as a way of assuring Canada's business community that the government was not going to adopt free trade.