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Originally Posted by indes
Okay so tariffs are gone for now and everyone is beating the drum for Canadian purchasing and more financial independence from the US.
Is anyone working on this? I mean here in Alberta it's easy for us to point to oil and say we should get it out east, but what else could be transferred east west? It would be awesome if there was some organization (government or otherwise) looking into our exports/imports province to province to find some overlap. They say not to waste a crisis and I hope we don't. It would be great to look at improving interprovincial trade right now.
It may be easier to ship south right now, but if we actually put the work into creating some east west infrastructure, we could bridge the gap a bit.
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PP came out yesterday and said that him and his government were going to focus on removing interprovincial trade barriers.
He has four key parts:
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- Holding a meeting with Canada's premiers within 30 days of becoming prime minister to discuss removing trade barriers.
- Work on developing a national standard for trucking rules to encourage east-west shipping over north-south shipping.
- Create a professional qualification recognized in all provinces that would allow doctors, nurses and engineers to work anywhere in the country.
- Offering a "free trade bonus" to provinces who drop trade barriers. Poilievre said the bonus would be funded out of the revenues realized by increased trade activity that takes place once trade barriers are dropped.
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