Breaking down interprovincial trade barriers won’t generate billions as billed: report

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Internal trade: report warns won’t generate billions as billed

 “barriers to interprovincial trade, investment and labour mobility are significantly overstated,” and calls the government’s publicly stated motivations for increasing internal trade “largely political theatre.”

“The alleged costs of interprovincial trade irritants have been vastly overstated, as virtually all goods, services and investment flows freely across provincial borders,” the report states.

“New mutual recognition legislation and the removal of important policy exceptions in the 2017 Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) will further reduce governments’ capacity to protect the environment, spur domestic economies, promote workplace health and safety, and stop predatory behaviours against consumers,” it also warns.

 

No I'm not a big fan of the center of policy alternatives, but if even the last Wing Cruise are starting to go after Carney and say that his plan is flawed and won't generate results that's a bad sign for the liberals. And frankly some of their points make sense, I've always seriously questioned whether or not there are billions and billions and billions of dollars in new trade to be done in Canada amongst provinces. Certainly more would be better and it would be definitely better with more labor mobility if they could coordinate their various accreditations and licenses. But will it generate multiple billions as the libs suggested? Some even suggesting it could replace the revenues lost to tariffs? 

I don't think it's going to generate as much economic activity as the liberals were hoping for. Which means he's given up the dST, spending has to go up, we're very obviously still going to have to pay for tariffs and this isn't going to generate the revenue they were hoping for either. The revenue picture is starting to look more and more bleak