CALGARY—If governments in Canada want to help increase economic productivity growth (and the possibility of a four-day work week), they should remove trade barriers between people and businesses in different provinces, finds a new essay released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“Canada may be one country but we’re not one economy, as barriers to investment and trade create artificial walls between our provincial and territorial economies at great cost to productivity and living standards,” said Trevor Tombe, associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary and author of Towards a More Productive and United Canada: The Case for Liberalizing Interprovincial Trade.
