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Opinion: If everyone loves internal trade, what's the holdup?

In the face of the Trump tariffs, everybody in Canada favours more internal trade. Trouble is, everybody also favours their own exemptions

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Everyone supports internal trade these days. Premiers support it. Business groups support it. Economists support it. Faced with geopolitical uncertainty and renewed trade tensions with the United States, governments across the country have embraced the idea that goods, services and workers should move more freely across provincial borders.

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