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Originally Posted by Slava

The bottom line is that while all the premiers say things like "we need to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers and work together", they still all want control and aren't making meaningful concessions on anything. It's unbelievable, but that is really where we are. I work in finance and the idea of one national regulator has been something that they have said they're working towards for as long as I can remember. That is a slam-dunk and should be easy to implement, but some provinces stand in the way and we're stuck with every province and territory having their own. I mean really...we can't have inter-provincial alcohol sales and ease of movement there, but now we hope that we're going to build oil pipelines?

The fact that the provincial governments can't work together on really easy issues makes me realise that anything complicated is just out of the question. Even in the face of what is literally an existential threat to the country, they still have their agendas and won't budge.

Nova Scotia made a huge announcement the other day about this.

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025...ervers/453049/

Meanwhile, on Feb. 25, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston introduced a bill in his province’s legislature to get goods moving across Canadian jurisdictions through mutual recognition. That’s a process which seeks to quickly knock down internal trade barriers by having one jurisdiction accept the regulatory standards of another, rather than the more daunting task of harmonizing individual regulations. There’s a catch: the Nova Scotia law would only offer this broad and sweeping mutual recognition to provinces that reciprocate by passing similar legislation of their own.