The Ontario premier said all the memorandums of understanding that provinces have signed on freer exchanges of goods and labour are fine, but it’s time for a binding agreement to let products and workers move around the country without obstacles. “Either you’re in or you’re out,” he said of the other provinces and territories. “Let’s start moving.” (The Logic)

Talking point: Ford was speaking on a panel at a Chamber of Commerce summit in Ottawa, along with the premiers of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and the Northwest Territories. P.E.I.’s Rob Lantz said that although the urgent response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic attacks on Canada has made for major progress, internal trade is still “a very tangled web” with lots of regulations to harmonize. New Brunswick’s Susan Holt said varying rules on trucking are her biggest internal-trade complaint because of how they hold up goods; for the Northwest Territories’ R.J. Simpson, it’s mismatched standards for skilled workers’ credentials.