Governments get marks for trade barrier talk but must ‘step up’: CFIB

But Keyli Loeppky, one of the authors of the report, The State of Internal Trade, said governments should expect harsher grading next year because CFIB will be looking for tangible results. Loeppky, CFIB’s senior director for Alberta and interprovincial affairs, also said that the group wants to see the federal government start to use its ability to penalize and reward provinces for working to tear down trade walls.