Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move:

That, in order to promote national unity, to improve collaboration with provincial and territorial initiatives, and to support the competitive needs of domestic business, the Senate now:

(a)call on the government to:

(i)address the issue of inter-provincial trade and assert in law, for judicial clarity, that Section 121 of the Constitution Act, 1867 is the law of the land;

(ii)clarify key principles of inter-provincial trade, such as accelerating mutual recognition, formal harmonization and introduction of federal standards when applicable;

(iii)develop institutional architecture to facilitate inter-provincial trade which would include creating an internal trade commissioner or expanding the Canada Free Trade Agreement Secretariat powers; and

(iv)create a binding investor-state dispute-resolution process where complaints, negotiations, decisions and appeals might occur;

(b)urge the government to move toward enacting a revised Canada Free Trade Agreement as law, cutting back on specific exemptions within the CFTA; and

(c)recommend that the government clarify longer-term integration objectives, such as how to more consistently relate them to urban projects and innovation superclusters.