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I gather that these kinds of barriers have likely been up for a very long time, long before I was old enough to really understand them.
So here I am at 48 years old trying to wrap my brain around why there were internal trade barriers in the first place. What reasons were given when they were first put up?
Please explain it as you would a child...
here's one (biased) take https://breachmedia.ca/freakout-about-canadas-internal-trade-barriers-a-corporate-scam/
makes some good points about how some barriers prevent a race to the bottom and allow provinces to take actions protecting their workers and industry
This was a decent explainer. In a nutshell...
There are four categories of trade barriers in Canada: natural barriers such as geography, prohibitive barriers such as restrictions on the sale of alcohol, technical barriers such as vehicle weight standards and regulatory barriers such as licensing and paperwork requirements.
The 2017 CFTA was intended to cut down on some of these barriers, but all provinces and territories negotiated exemptions for various reasons, ranging from different safety regulations across provinces, to different language requirements, to industry protectionism.
It's not clear right now which barriers the feds can unilaterally eliminate (and whether we agree with all of them), but I guess we'll find out within the next week or so.
This is great news. I hope the feds donβt screw this up for us.
Crazy that it takes a Nazi dictator threatening annexation for our government to come together and do something. Itβs about time.
Nothing unites quite like a common threat
Do you always take people's words literal, at face value?
Are you always surprised when people do something after saying they would do that thing multiple times?
As a microbrew fan, I wouldn't mind seeing beers from other provinces being made available.
Whiskys and gins too please!
Abolish all domestic barriers.