Federal budget to include promise to take on Canada-U.S. price gaps: official

A Senate finance committee report released last year, however, suggested several complex factors were to blame for price differences between Canada and the U.S., including higher transportation costs in Canada, more onerous packaging requirements, disparate provincial regulatory requirements, a smal...

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Published inThe Canadian Press
Main Author Lee-Anne Goodman and Maria Babbage
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto Canadian Press Enterprises Inc 10.02.2014
Subjects
Budgets
Congressional committees
Consumers
Costs
International comparisons
Legislation
Prices
Tariffs
Canada
United States > US
Ottawa, Ontario
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Summary:A Senate finance committee report released last year, however, suggested several complex factors were to blame for price differences between Canada and the U.S., including higher transportation costs in Canada, more onerous packaging requirements, disparate provincial regulatory requirements, a smaller Canadian consumer market -- and tariffs.