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On-again, off-again tariffs. Talk of making Canada the 51st state. Worries about crossing the U.S. border. Trade policy that can shift overnight, then shift again.
The chaos has Atlantic Canadian businesses looking closer to home for trade partners; governments and regulators seem finally ready to take action on making inter-provincial trade easier.
Even if there have been frustrations in the past over internal trade barriers, there hasn’t been a whole lot of urgency in dealing with them. Until now.
“There’s a kind of comfort and safety in not changing. But that itself is changing now,” said Morgan Peters, CEO of the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce. “Things are changing, so let’s harness what we can, and get comfortable with change, because stasis is no longer comfortable.”
“Interprovincial trade and bringing down barriers has been something talked about for literally decades… It’s time to seize that talk and turn it into action.”
—Morgan Peters, CEO, Fredericton Chamber of Commerce
What does getting comfortable with change mean to Peters and his organization’s members? Well, for one thing, “Interprovincial trade and bringing down barriers has been something talked about for literally decades. And now, living through what I’ve been referring to as the era of uncertainty, it’s time to seize that talk and turn it into action.”
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