Special Report: Canada's Dirty Little Secret — Quebec and Other Provinces Run Their Own Trade Barriers While Premiers Rage at Trump

Quebec Premier Christine Frechette

A Note From George

This week, Canada’s premiers lined up to call U.S. tariffs unjust, an attack on sovereignty, a “power play.” They weren’t wrong. But there’s a harder question worth asking while the outrage is fresh: if internal trade barriers between our own provinces cost this country billions every year - money that would flow freely if governments simply got out of their own way - why do so many of those same governments still have their own house in disorder?

This report names names, walks through what these barriers actually cost real people, and includes voices from the business owners and experts who live with this every day. It starts with Quebec, because the numbers leave no ambiguity about who’s worst.