Building homes in Newfoundland and Labrador often feels like rowing upstream—material costs are high, trades are stretched thin. One major, under-the-radar culprit? Canada’s interprovincial trade barriers —rules that hinder the free movement of goods, services, and labor between provinces. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), removing these barriers could add 30,000 housing starts per year nationwide , pushing annual starts to nearly 280,000 —about