Overheated rhetoric about removing so-called interprovincial trade barriers will not help us meet the existential threat of a long-term 25 per cent tariff on exports to the U.S.
One idea for economic renewal should be tossed aside as futile: removing so-called interprovincial trade barriers. This is a false solution aimed at deregulation and boosting corporate profits, rather than securing new investment and protecting jobs in this country.
What business labels “trade barriers” are often government protections for nascent local industries and manufacturers, and safeguards for workers and consumers. As studies point out, the costs of mutual recognition of public protection and licensing requirements are likely to fall disproportionately on workers. We ought to pull together for the fight ahead, not pick fights with unions.
Yeah let’s not go THAT far. Those trade barriers exist for anything to coddle some local businesses. There needs to be rationalization of these barriers. Booze is a perfect example.
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Yeah let’s not go THAT far. Those trade barriers exist for anything to coddle some local businesses. There needs to be rationalization of these barriers. Booze is a perfect example.
Ah yes, the nascent industries of milk and alcohol.