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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.
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Your post is spot on and a reflection at how badly this country is managed by every province from every political party. We just don't get it from a business and economic perspective.
I also was in finance and can recall all the talk about the benefits of a national regulator yet here we are in 2025 with the same nonsense. We literally are about as stupid of a nation where we just can't figure out basic things. Our government officials are patting themselves on the back for some loosening of alcohol sales across a border or two. Wow, really earth moving stuff.
I have said it before and I will say it again. It's by some miracle that as a people we are not a starving nation. We pretty much do some natural resource extraction, sell to the USA mostly from US affiliated companies, some stable banking/insurance and that's it.
In some ways if these tariffs go through and actually crush Canadian business, it will hopefully lead to a revolt of the electoral class to the governing people. Just because our elected officials in every province are beyond brain dead, doesn't mean we need to suffer anymore than we have to.