New Strategic Exports Office a step forward in trade diversification, but Canada also faces infrastructure, price-competitiveness challenges, say trade experts

The Hill Times: “The most straightforward [issue] is to be price competitive—reducing the cost of these exports—which is not just the export itself; it also has to do with transportation costs [and] has to do with infrastructure costs,” said Diya Jiang, a research manager specializing in international trade at the University of Calgary. “It is very costly to transfer something from the East Coast—from Quebec, from Ontario—all the way to B.C., and it makes it so cost inefficient that that creates this artificial barrier.”…