Now that we’re talking trade, it works be a good time to address Canada’s internal trade barriers:

“Let’s sit down and come up with a list, because everyone wants to protect something – no matter if it’s the dairy cow in Newfoundland, or the wine in B.C., or ourselves – everyone’s guilty,” he added.

Consumers are confronted by these roadblocks every day. A craft brewery in Quebec can’t sell its beer directly to a nearby restaurant in Ottawa. An engineer in New Brunswick has to get licensed in neighbouring Nova Scotia before practising there. A truck driver in British Columbia can only drive certain truck configurations at night but must do so during the day in Alberta – leaving a narrower time frame to make an interprovincial trek.

Taken together, these barriers are constraining Canada’s economic potential. Research shows that tearing them down would give the economy a sizable boost – perhaps enough to offset the hit from steep U.S. tariffs.

Original https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-trump-threats-are-inspiring-canada-to-tackle-trade-war-from-within/

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    I was really pleasantly surprised to hear him and the journalists switch from English to French and back to English seamlessly and without drama.

    That is (happily) common in Canadian politics. Bilingual politicians are happy to reach a larger audience, just as journalists prefer to have quotes in their target language.

    If Trump catalyzes good things in Canada, then Trump will have done something good in his life, against all odds.

    Definitely. It’s incumbent on us to make that happen, though. Politicians haven’t prioritized it for the last fifty years - they’ll only do it if they receive pressure.