Internal trade reform requires not only dismantling entrenched regulatory silos, but engaging thousands of public servants across 14 governments and innumerable departments and ministries to rethink decades of divergent regulatory practice where there can be good reasons for the status quo.
Beyond the barriers it directly controls, federal engagement and co-ordination is fundamental to mitigating provincial barriers.
Ryan Manucha’s Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade is one of five finalists for this year’s Donner Prize. The following is an excerpt.
