Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promise to reduce trade barriers through a bill that has few details for the trucking industry specifically, has garnered praise from the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA).
The new legislation — One Canadian Economy: An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act — is designed to remove federal barriers to internal trade and labor mobility, and advance nation-building projects, the feds said.
The feds say they’ll speed up the approval process for major infrastructure projects. It also streamlines multiple decision points for federal approval.
The CTA is encouraged by the legislation.
“CTA has worked diligently over several years to position our industry as the backbone of the supply chain. Our sector needs regulatory attention to operate effectively and productively,” said CTA president Stephen Laskowski. “We now have a wonderful opportunity to address the issues that hindered our sector, our customers and partners within supply chain, and economy as well. Led by Ottawa, now is the time all levels of government need to cooperate in earnest and in good faith, with our industry and concertedly fix these issues.”
