Internal Trade: the Glamour of a New Economic Eldorado

La Presse

Lean Left

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Since the beginning of the trade dispute with the United States, the removal of barriers to interprovincial trade has been presented as a powerful growth channel for the Canadian economy. According to widely circulated estimates, these barriers would represent an economic burden equivalent to a tariff barrier of 25% or would result in a reduction of $5,100 per capita in the country's standard of living.