Canada's premiers have kicked off their annual meeting in Charlottetown, and the leaders of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta are already promising to review their regional trade agreement to see what barriers remain between their provinces.
Premier Robert Ghiz, who is hosting this year's Council of the Federation meeting, is scheduled to talk to reporters at 11:30 a.m. ET, following comments by New Brunswick Premier David Alward and B.C. Premier Christy Clark. CBCnews.ca will carry the press conferences live.
Earlier Thursday, Clark, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and Alberta's Dave Hancock started the day by announcing they're going to take a look at the New West Partnership to see if regulations are preventing trade opportunities.
Wall said, for example, that if a company wants to make first aid kits for Canada, that business would have to satisfy 10 different sets of regulations as to what might constitute a first aid kit.
"So this seems dumb and I think at the heart of improving trade issues is trying to remove dumb from the economy," Wall said.
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, along with the premiers of Saskatchewan and Alberta, said they'll review regulations to try to knock down more trade barriers between their provinces. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
Clark said all of the provinces have room to improve trade, but pointed to the federal government, too, and said she wants to help it understand all the things it can do to increase trade.
"We know that trade barriers kill jobs. We know that red tape gets in the way of putting people to work across the country. And it doesn't make any sense to any of us that we should be putting artificial barriers in the way of creating jobs, because a job that's created in Saskatchewan is also of benefit to people who live in PEI," she said.
While the agenda is expected to focus on trade, the premiers are also expected to talk about Canada's aging population, health-care and pensions.
The 13 premiers, who met Wednesday with native leaders, started their day with a photo-op, walking down the rain-slicked street in front of the provincial legislature, where they dropped their umbrellas and posed for a group photo.
Ghiz reminded the premiers that it was in Charlottetown 150 years ago that the premiers from the Maritimes and two Canadian provinces gathered for a conference that cemented the idea of Confederation.
The meeting wraps up Friday.
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