The Competition Bureau is pretty well-seasoned at policing anti-competitive behaviours and trying to create markets and create space for Canadian small and medium-sized businesses to compete. Internal trade is about the efficient allocation of resources, making sure that we can actually be a G7 economy of competitive intensity. It's about the proper orientation of our internal people, capital, labouring and all the factors of production.
The Competition Bureau is there with soft powers, advisory powers and investigatory powers and is able to memorialize research and advise on matters of internal trade, which is better than the status quo. We have a non-political and non-activist secretariat in Winnipeg that runs the Canadian Free Trade Agreement. It needs to be non-partisan, non-involved and unaffiliated. You need a more centralized authority in the federal government that has a coordinating responsibility.