If we can’t move it, we can’t sell it: reducing Canada’s reliance on the U.S. demands a national trade infrastructure strategy

While peer nations have long-term strategies to build and maintain the infrastructure that supports trade, Canada stands alone among its global competitors in lacking a coherent plan. That needs to change. Now.

With global instability mounting and growing threats from south of the border, the stakes for Canada’s economy and our ability to compete have never been higher.Image courtesy of Pexels/Avijit Singh

Opinion

BY CANDACE LAING, RODRIGUE GILBERT, KEITH CURRIE, DENNIS DARBY, BRAD SCOTT, CHRIS LORENC, GARY MAR

July 19, 2025

Canada is an exporting nation. The flow of goods fuels two-thirds of our GDP, supports millions of Canadian jobs, and is intimately tied to our standard of living. Despite this, the trade infrastructure and corridors on which we rely to get our goods to market are falling da...

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