During our last class lecture we did a confederation debate.  Our group was the Maritimes against confederation, it was a very interesting view on confederation.  I personally had never looked into confederation from the views of the maritimes.  We discovered that one of the main reasons for the maritimes to not encourage confederation was they did not see that they would fairly represented in the house of commons.  Another issue was regarding concern about trade with the rest of Canada and England, the people of the Maritimes believed that the trade taxes would go up for their exports.  One of the final concerns was about the trans-Canadian railway, in the Maritimes the railways have only even ran North to South.  The idea of an East to West railway was new and different.   These were some of the main points that were made rom our group.