Susan Holt

The New Brunswick government is taking more steps to try and improve trade between other provinces. The province announced that it was removing five more procurement-related interprovincial trade exceptions. …Premier Susan Holt said this is in addition to 10 other exceptions they have already removed or modified. …“Removing the exception means that their procurement will be open to competition from bidders from all over the place,” she added. With 15 trade exceptions now being removed or modified, the province still has 17 party-specific exceptions still in place. Holt said many of those are “sticky ones” that involve resource-related items such as Crown wood and the crab fishery. …“Where it’s natural resources that are critical to New Brunswick’s economy and identity, we’re not yet sure whether we want to remove the requirements to process and add value to those primary products in our province.”