For example, if we look at how pension and social benefits payments are made, these payments are deposited to a bank account wherein around 96% of the beneficiaries hold bank accounts at one particular bank. And this bank makes regular trips to islands to facilitate account holders to withdraw cash.
In effect, we chose to grow our national economy by building infrastructure and increasing interprovincial trade. Since the 1940s, though, Canada has consistently advocated for more liberalized international trade, even while allowing interprovincial trade barriers to persist, or even to increase. Our dependence on international trade makes recent developments on this front very worrisome.