The Ontario government presented a new legislation on Wednesday to reduce internal commercial barriers, and Prime Minister Doug Ford signed agreements related to two provinces, both in efforts to make the economy more resistant against the effects of US tariffs.
In an announcement on Wednesday, Ford told reporters that commercial barriers within Canada were essentially a self -imposed tax, which increases the cost of daily goods and services by almost 15 percent, echoing a figure of the Canadian internal minister of internal trade, Anita Anand, in recent months.
“Like President Trump’s rates, these commercial barriers harm our economy, jobs and investment away, and divide us with each other,” Ford said.
Ford says that the new bill of his government would make Ontario the first government in Canada to unconditionally eliminate all current exceptions to interprovincial free trade.
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The legislation would also allow the Government to direct the regulators of the province to recognize the goods, services and workers of alternative provinces and territories.
For example, government officials say that currently some trucks have to stop at provincial borders to change signaling, so harmonizing those requirements would save these companies.
In addition, the bill is ready to eliminate barriers that make people difficult in certain works in different provinces.
In alcohol, for a long time a dispute point in the interprovincial commercial conversations, the legislation would introduce an interprovincial model of direct sales to the consumer so that the Ontario residents could buy directly from the producers in other provinces, and the Ontario producers could sell directly to consumers in other places in Canada.
The new bill occurs one day after the discourse of the throne of the Ontario government, in which the progressive conservative majority government promised to make internal free trade one of its first priorities as the legislature resumes.
The speech made several mentions of the need to respond to the economic uncertainty created by the rates of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and Ford reiterated that issue on Wednesday.
“These last months have made it clear, as Prime Minister, we need to work together to build a more united, more competitive and more self -sufficient Canadian economy that creates jobs and prosperity here at home,” Ford said Wednesday.
Ford signs the mous trade with New Scotland, NB
Ford also signed an understanding memorandum on Wednesday with the prime ministers of New Scotland and New Brunswick that support the elimination of barriers between those provinces.
The New Scotland government has already presented similar legislation to reduce commercial barriers, and Prime Minister Tim Houston told reporters that the impulse is growing among their colleagues.
“We have to act at this time and make sure to open true free trade throughout Canada,” said Houston. “The atmosphere of other ministers throughout the country [is] who want to get there. “
Improving free trade between provinces has reached the avant -garde of political discussions in Canada since Trump began to threaten tariffs months ago.
Prime Minister Mark Carney promoted the issue at his first meeting with Canada’s ministers last month. Subsequently, Carney promised to have free internal trade for Canada’s day, saying that the free movement of workers, goods and services within Canada would increase the size of the country’s economy by $ 250 billion.
