Prime Minister Mark Carney walks with some provincial premiers and senior government officials as they arrive to take part in the first ministers meeting at the National War Museum in Ottawa in March 2025.
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Intergovernmental relations in Canadian federalism are notoriously weak and lack the legitimacy and transparency to bring about effective collective action. Here what needs to change.
A truck hauls freight along the Trans Canada Highway in Banff, Alta., in August 2017.
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Eliminating interprovincial trade barriers could result in countless benefits for Canadians and reduce Canada’s over-reliance on the American market as Donald Trump threatens tariffs.
The media and politicians with a vested interest pit provinces against each other. But a study shows there are lots of differences of opinion within provinces, and geography doesn’t matter much. Here Quebec residents protest against the government’s Bill 21, which bans religious headgear, in April 2019.
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Despite decades of bickering and hand-wringing, Canada continues on. National tensions, in and of themselves, are not leading us to poor policy outcomes.
A different decision from the Supreme Court of Canada on inter-provincial trade barriers could have, among other things, finally forced politicians to deal with the country’s problematic supply management system for the dairy and poultry sectors.
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The Gérard Comeau case was never just about beer. It was essentially about enabling Canada’s domestic economy across the country to thrive. Here’s how the Supreme Court of Canada got it so wrong.