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Canada’s provincial premiers should cut red tape on trade at home and maintain solidarity with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the face of U.S. “protectionist attacks,” the head of a major business group says.

With premiers beginning a meeting Wednesday, Chamber of Commerce President Perrin Beatty is urging them to make it easier to do business and break down stubborn trade barriers between provinces that hurt growth.

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“The competitiveness of Canadian businesses is eroding,” Beatty wrote in a letter to the incoming chairman of the premiers’ group, New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant. “The issue has become even more urgent as a result of U.S. tax and regulatory reforms and of the attack on our trading relationship with our largest customer.”