Trade barriers and trucking: unified political fortitude needed to push through the noise

Trade barriers impeding supply chains and slowing down economic trade include: aligning and improving winter road maintenance standards; increased access to rest areas for truck drivers; and completing work and expanding critical highway connections to trade corridors.

To truly increase efficiencies throughout the supply chain, and trucking specifically, the prime minister will need the commitment and political will of the premiers, the ministers of Transportation and mayors, writes Stephen Laskowski, president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance.Photograph courtesy of Tung Lam, Pixabay.com

Opinion

BY STEPHEN LASKOWSKI

June 9, 2025

The Canadian trucking industry has been familiar with issues and challenges related to removing internal trade barriers long before it became a household term in Ottawa and popularized by media as a potential counterweight to American tariffs and strategy to boost Canadian ...

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