Canada can do substantial work fast on internal trade, minister says – National [Video]

Canada is making “incredible” progress in removing three major internal trade barriers, Transport and Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand told reporters in Halifax on Wednesday.

Anand described the work as “fast-paced progress with all of the provinces and territories.”

“We had an urgent meeting on Friday of the relevant ministers. At that meeting, we reached three strong recommendations,” she said.

Canada’s Committee on Internal Trade met last week to discuss how to open up trade between Canada’s provinces. Anand said the first major recommendation that the committee agreed to implement is mutual recognition of regulations across the country.

“That is, in other words, respecting the rules in place in other jurisdictions. So, you don’t have to comply, if you’re a trucker, with moving your lights to a slightly different location if you cross a provincial boundary,” she said.

She added, “Secondly, we all agreed to reduce the exceptions in the Canadian Free Trade Act.”

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