It’s provinces vs. Canada — and Canada’s losing

Canadian wineries can't sell their wines across provincial boundaries.

Canadian wineries face huge constitutional and legal barriers to selling their wines across provincial borders — just one symptom of Canada's larger economic problems.


Canada’s economy is suffering from nation-state dysfunction in a showdown between provincial political rights and national economic interest. It’s hard to position yourself as a global free-trade champion when you discourage free trade within your own borders, write DeGroote School of Business Dean Leonard Waverman and business writer in residence Gordon Pitts.

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