Trade Barriers

Dept: Today, when Maritimers think about this low-impact club at all, they don t see it going anywhere that makes a difference to them, according to The Chronicle Herald. We explore the benefits if the three provinces at least started acting like one in procurement, sharing administration of similar services and removing trade barriers. And there is a vast scope to eliminate costly and time-wasting differences in regulations that govern activities as diverse as driving, trucking, hunting, selling milk, buying wine and issuing securities and iT HAS been 42 years since the Maritime premiers named themselves a council to kick-start regional co-operation. By and large, they re right, as you can see in Sunday issue of Herald Magazine. It examines the slight accomplishments of four decades of Maritimes co-operation expanded to include Newfoundland and Labrador 13 years ago and imagines what could be if we were one province of 1.8 million Maritimers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.