Kanadas interne Handelshemmnisse kosten laut Bericht mehr als US-Zölle
https://www.wealthprofessional.ca/news/industry-news/canadas-internal-trade-barriers-cost-more-than-us-tariffs-report-finds/393141
Kanadas interne Handelshemmnisse kosten laut Bericht mehr als US-Zölle
https://www.wealthprofessional.ca/news/industry-news/canadas-internal-trade-barriers-cost-more-than-us-tariffs-report-finds/393141
16 Kommentare
WE DONT PAY THE TARIFF. Of course internal trade barriers cost more. What a moronic title. And stupid report. In other news water is wet and the sun is bright.
It’s wild we have barriers in our own country.
Could we at least have premiers streamline regulations? Physics doesn’t care about borders. How does this make sense:
The Barrier: In British Columbia, certain wide-base single tires (super-singles) are approved for specific weight loads, but crossing into Alberta with the exact same load can violate local axle weight limits or require specific daylight-only permits.
The Impact: Trucking companies are forced to either underload their trucks, change tires/trailers at the border, or navigate a complex web of multi-jurisdictional permits. This adds significant delays, compliance costs, and fuel inefficiencies when moving goods across Canada.
I am myself, I am not hungrey.
I love your country, visit whenever I can, but I can’t understand it.
What frustrates me is that provinces want Ottawa to negotiate a better trade deal with the US and protect every important provincial industry, while many of them still refuse to remove the trade barriers they impose on each other. It’s especially painful when those internal barriers may be doing as much or even more damage to Canada’s economy, and unlike US tariffs, they are something we can actually start fixing ourselves right now.
Instead, the message from premiers is often “don’t use my industry as leverage,” “protect this sector,” or “send us more support,” while they resist national coordination and defend their own jurisdiction whenever Ottawa tries to act. I understand that this is part of the price of being a federation, but provinces cannot have it both ways. They can push the federal government to get a better deal with the US while also removing internal trade barriers, fixing housing, improving healthcare and addressing the responsibilities already within their control. We would all be better off as a result
I thought we were going to deal with this first thing – what’s the deal Premiers?
Labour mobility is such an easy low-hanging fruit that we really need to push for that costs us economic opportunities. I’ve used this example a few times on this sub, so excuse me for kicking a dead horse, but as a Registered Nurse, it’s a colossal and completely unnecessary pain in the ass to work in another province. My legal name and registration in my home province can be verified in literally seconds online by anyone with a computer, yet getting a new licence can take from days to months, depending on how slow that regulatory college is. I stupidly allowed my BC emergency licence to lapse last year and getting a new regular licence took about 2 months – it was such a colossal pain in the ass, which not only cost me job opportunities, it deprived host hospitals that were desperate for staffing coverage. I’m sure this situation is true across all professionals and trades, which is just pathetic.
This is one of the consequences of giving the provinces so much power.
Provincial trade barriers are one of those things kids are gonna read about in their history LLMs and laugh about
Seeing as tariffs cost Americans, not Canadians, does it really matter?
We already know this. The question is why aren’t the provinces removing this already?!
Most provincial barriers could be eliminated in a day by simply having the provinces agree to recognize other provincial standards as good enough. It’s not a perfect solution, but it goes a long way to solving the issue of provincial trade barriers without having to spend time on every single issue, many of which are completely unnecessary. From that point, small details can be perfected. It’s absolutely possible to do with the right political will, especially when the USA has no state trade barriers.
this is starting to bother me alot I hope everyone in their respective provinces is complaining to their premiere
Correct. And nobody knows why they are necessary when we abolished these kinds of barriers in the EU in 1992…
I suspect that a 50% tariff on assorted items, 25% on steel, aluminum and cars – I have trouble imagining how interprovincial trade is anywhere near that category unless the study was determinined to make the numbers say so.
„Statistics is the art of torturing numbers until they tell you what you want to hear.“
Everyone busy hating Trump but our country can’t even figure trade out within our own borders. It’s a joke.