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Inter-provincial business and trade platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Create a $5B fund to build trade infrastructure such as ports, railroads, inland terminals, airports, and highways

    "We will inject $5 billion into a new Trade Diversification Corridor Fund, to build the infrastructure that will help diversify our trade partners, create good jobs and drive economic growth. This fund will accelerate nation-building projects at ports, railroads, inland terminals, airports, and highways. This will build one Canadian economy and diversify our trade away from the United States." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

  • Authorise Canadian ports to cooperate to maximise efficiencies

    "Authorize Canadian ports to cooperate instead of compete, in order to maximize efficiencies by leveraging comparative advantages." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

  • Table legislation to eliminate all federal barriers to interprovincial trade and labour mobility, and remove all federal exceptions under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement by 1 July

    "Unleash free trade in Canada by Canada Day by tabling legislation to eliminate all federal barriers to interprovincial trade and labour mobility and to remove all federal exceptions under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement. By removing internal trade barriers we will create higher paying jobs, unlock economic potential, and become stronger at home and abroad." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

  • Work with province and territories on mutual recognition of credentials to encourage labour mobility

    "Achieve mutual recognition of credentials with provinces and territories so Canadians can work wherever they want. This includes health professional credentials, professional qualifications in financial services, and trucking safety certifications, amongst others. In cases where mutual recognition is not attainable, we will harmonize regulations to enhance labour mobility. Following Nova Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and PEI’s initial actions, we will drive down costs for Canadians and businesses, strengthen supply chains, increase productivity, and bring new opportunities." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

Conservative

  • Add new rest areas for truck drivers

    "Adding new rest areas for truck drivers to support supply chains and improve road safety." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Host a meeting of premiers to remove exceptions in the Canadian Free Trade Agreement within 30 days of taking office

    "Bring the premiers together to slash exceptions in the Canadian Free Trade Agreement and boost interprovincial trade within 30 days of taking office." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Give increased tax revenue back to provinces that lower their inter-provincial trade and labour mobility barriers

    "Introduce a Free Trade Bonus that rewards provinces that lower the trade and labour mobility barriers that cost our economy billions. Every trade barrier removed by provinces will boost GDP, improve labour mobility, and generate more tax revenue. Conservatives will give increased tax revenue back to provinces to spend on schools, hospitals, and whatever else the provinces choose." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Harmonise trucking regulations and permits across provinces

    "Free the roads for truck drivers by harmonizing trucking regulations and permits across provinces to eliminate red tape, cut costs, and open up trade in the sector that keeps our economy moving." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

Bloc

  • Proposer de décentraliser Développement économique Canada en confiant les sommes à des fonds régionaux
  • Contrer l’imposition des politiques de libre-échange interprovincial avec effets néfastes au Québec

    Le Bloc Québécois s’opposera catégoriquement à toute tentative d’imposer

    des politiques néfastes au Québec sous prétexte de

    libre-échange interprovincial, par exemple, affaiblir la

    protection de la langue française, abolir l’obligation

    de transformer au Québec le bois coupé dans la forêt

    québécoise, imposer des gazoducs et oléoducs ou

    remplacer les institutions québécoises de reconnaissance

    des compétences des travailleurs et professionnels

  • Défendre les compétences du Québec en matière de finance et de valeurs mobilières, menacées par Toronto sous prétexte d’abattement des obstacles au commerce intérieur
  • Militer pour amenuiser les infrastructures de transport désuètes, qui sont des obstacles au commerce interprovincial

NDP

  • Work with provinces to harmonise environmental and health safety standards, so as to reduce barriers to inter-provincial trade

    "And we would work with provinces to eliminate inter-provincial trade barriers, including harmonizing environmental and health and safety standards to the highest level." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

We don't have any Green policies on Inter-provincial business and trade.

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