Complex sentence: 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.
Split into simpler sentences: 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.