Economic growth depends on eliminating internal trade barriers

The answer was to offer child care and eliminate interprovincial trade barriers. While a national child-care plan has since been created, internal trade barriers remain. While Canada has two internal trade agreements — the Canadian Free Trade Agreement and the New West Partnership Trade Agreement — they are, at best, partial solutions. The cost to Canadians of interprovincial trade barriers is among the most openly and widely acknowledged facts — one generally accepted among political leaders of every party stripe. Eliminating barriers to interprovincial trade, investment and labour mobility is one of them, and it is the best thing Canadians can do to boost national economic growth.