Consider Canada's Production Possibilities Boundary

question 58

Multiple Choice

Consider Canada's production possibilities boundary.During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,millions of people immigrated to western Canada.The effect on the Canadian economy was to

• A)move it to a point beyond its new production possibilities boundary.
• B)move it inside its new production possibilities boundary.
• C)shift its production possibilities boundary inward.
• D)shift its production possibilities boundary outward.
• E)move it along an unchanged production possibilities boundary.

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