Okay, I put notice of motion on the topic for our committee to look at eliminating interprovincial and territorial trade barriers. I think everybody has it in front of them.
It's fairly general in terms of consisting of at least four meetings. It suggests a couple of witnesses, but it's very open to whom it could include. It also invites the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and relevant department officials, and the chair would be empowered to set timelines for witness recommendations. Also the committee would present a report to the House when it's ready.
I have a couple of comments I would make, Mr. Chair. We all know that, for as long as I possibly can remember, we have been attempting to try to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers to have free movement of goods and people. Now is the moment when we have a really great opportunity to tackle this once again and be successful.
Part of the reason I put this one forward is that I truly believe not only that it would be of interest to every single political party, but also that it would be of great interest to every single province and territory.
I don't think we need to eliminate all of the barriers at once for every single thing. We could do it step by step, and we could get a lot of advice about how we can finally break the logjam and be successful on eliminating these interprovincial trade barriers.
We know there have been some successes in the east-west partnership. There has been some success out in the west between B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. I am wondering if we could have some learnings from there. Maybe we could also get some advice about how we could do things differently so that we don't get into the logjam that we have had in the past.
With that, Mr. Chair, I'd like to move that we consider this as one of the next topics of discussion for our finance committee.