Thank you to the witnesses who are here before us today.
I'd like to start with Mr. Harvey.
Some of the most egregious non-tariff trade barriers we face in Canada, the things that really affect our economy most, are of our own making. There are interprovincial non-tariff trade barriers. I know that we are talking about international ones here, but just for my riding, we have trade barriers on the transportation of wine across provincial boundaries. There are regulations around labour laws and transportation in general.
I'm wondering if this is a problem when we go to the international stage and demand fixes. Is this something that other countries and agencies can throw back at us, saying that maybe we should work on our own problems in our own backyard first? It seems that we haven't taken care of this in Canada.