OTTAWA — Andrew Scheer is promising that a Conservative government would negotiate a deal to eliminate trade barriers among Canada’s provinces. “I am not talking about a simple memorandum of understanding,” Scheer said during a speech in Edmonton. “The interprovincial free trade agreement will be a real free trade deal, like NAFTA, like CETA, like the TPP … It will be a huge step forward, well beyond the current agreement.”The previous Conservative government began negotiations with the provinces on what eventually became the Canadian Free Trade Agreement, which went into force in 2017. The discord he has sown has prompted an unprecedented number of legal actions against his government from provinces frustrated at his over-reaching” into provincial jurisdiction over natural resources, Scheer said. “It’s clear that every time there’s a Trudeau in the Prime Minister’s Office, our union begins to crack,” Scheer said.

Source: National Post June 04, 2019 19:46 UTC