Brechen von Handelsbarrieren interprinzieller Handelsabrechnungen werden nicht Milliarden erzeugen, wie in Rechnung gestellt: Bericht
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/politicians-overstating-benefits-of-scrapping-internal-trade-barriers-think-tank/
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Whether it generates hundreds, millions, billions or tens of billions, it doesn’t really matter. It’s a no-brainer to tear down the barriers.
I don’t think anyone really knows what is going to happen or what is going to work but it’s important to understand this entire article and headline is based on one report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. If you look through their website they clearly have some biases and an agenda. “What is being done isn’t correct, instead you should do what we suggest”
If you read an article stating otherwise, quoting a different report.. which one is right? It’s so frustrating that so much of our reaction to policy is just parroting shit that think tanks or analysts say.
In my opinion, even if the ultimate result is just some positive vibes it’s a valuable thing to do.
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This is not a discussion. Either you’re capable of understanding why trade is good and of applying that understanding to the intranational level, or you’re not.
If you read between the lines of the report, what the authors clearly believe is that making everyone poorer by imposing a set of intranationally inconsistent industry-captured regulations is good because the products of that regulatory capture are „better“ in some ephemeral way than the prosperity eliminating them would create. That’s the choice being offered here by the authors‘ own logic, and I think the correct option is obvious.
Doesn’t have to. But it will save money. Doesn’t have to be billions to be worthwhile. It makes absolutely no sense to have free trade with other countries but not within our own.
All it will do, really, is weaken the weaker economies even further as competition from the stronger wipes them out.
Of course no real reason not to keep barriers as low as possible but I do think CCPA will be proven right here that this was largely election hype that will fail to materialize.
Tombe backpedaling and moving the goalposts to try to distance from the disappointment that we can see coming.
The country is very large and there will be enormous local bias regardless of the regulatory environment. That will limit the impact of low barriers to trade.
Why can’t Ontarions buy Okanagan wines or people in BC buy wines from Niagara, but both can buy from New Zealand, France and the California.
That’s crazy.
Hard to say what will and will not happen as business, money and future investments may shift in a interprovincial free trade zone.
We are the top 10 economy on the planet, it stands to reason that some form of barrier free trade between provinces will be benificial. Put another way, if Ontario were a country it would have a comparable GDP to Argentina, Quebec to South Africa, not insignificant.