B.C. looking at coalition of willing provinces to expand trade within Canada, Eby says [Video]

The British Columbia government is willing to enter bilateral agreements with other jurisdictions in order to boost interprovincial trade as looming U.S. tariffs threaten Canada’s economy, Premier David Eby says. 

The possibility of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods and services has pushed provinces to look to each other as one way to diversify their markets and protect their economies and jobs. Despite the establishment of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement in 2017, many products do not trade freely among provinces and territories.

“What we need to do is start acting like a country where if you’re licensed for a particular profession, or if you’re producing a particular good in some part of the province, that you’re able to sell it without difficulty or sell your services without difficulty,” Eby said on Wednesday.

There’s a list of exemptions under the free trade agreement that provinces are grappling with to try to …