Canadians who want to protest U.S. tariffs by purchasing local products face an ironic yet unfortunate reality: Buying Canadian isn’t always so easy.
Interprovincial trade barriers, which hinder the movement of goods and workers within the country, are a decades-old aggravation for the economy. These hurdles can make it more challenging for Canadian businesses to sell their products to other parts of the country than to the United States. Even as Canada faces the prospect of crippling U.S. tariffs, it is fighting another trade war – with itself.
