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Guest column: Trump 51st state taunt underscores Canada's internal trade mess

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Donald Trump's provocative suggestion that Canada might as well be America ’s 51st state is absurd is absurd.

Sylvain Charlebois: Most Canadians understand this will never happen, but it exposes inconvenient truth.

Canada ’ fragmented trade policies often make it easier to do business with the U.S. than with other provinces, he says.

Each province operates under its own quotas, making the movement of goods across provincial borders unnecessarily complex.