In the Darwinian international trade environment emerging on the world stage, Canada will be hard-pressed to maintain (and certainly to grow) many of the trade links upon which our economic wellbeing depends.  It follows that Canada must explore all potentially equitable new trade links we can find and build our domestic market as well.

Achieving the efficiencies of scale and filling gaps created where traditional export markets narrow or close must become one of our areas of primary effort.  Overcoming on an equitable basis inappropriate current barriers to interprovincial trade will be challenging but we need to press forward, difficult though this will prove to be.

The 'fee' to which this article refers illustrates amply the difficulties entailed and the short-term political advantages that parochial, small-minded Premiers will too often be unwilling to forgo.   Partisan advantages that serve to erect and embed domestic trade barriers precisely when they should be reduced.