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Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew struck an internal trade agreement between their two provinces on May 14.

It has been six months since U.S. President Donald Trump launched his tariff blitzkrieg on Canada and created the urgent need to tear down this country’s counter-productive internal trade barriers. Alarmingly, the goal of a single Canadian economy is still a long way off, with only one province to date even close to taking the sort of sweeping action the moment requires.

In April, Ontario removed all its party-specific exceptions under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement, a 2017 deal that is notable more for the 135 pages of carve-outs in its annexes than it is for any actual freeing of interprovincial commerce.

This week, on Labour Day, the Ford go

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