Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet his pledge to eliminate the country’s internal trade barriers by July 1. But economists say it’s not a substitute for lost U.S. trade.
When Mark Carney became Canada’s prime minister in the spring, he offered a seemingly simple and obvious answer to the economic threat posed by President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian exports: Trade more within Canada.
To that end, Mr. Carney, the leader of the Liberal Party, promised to eliminate rules and laws that stifle the movement of goods and many workers inside the country by July 1, Canada Day, after decades of national hand-wringing over the issue.
