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OTTAWA — Canada’s Chamber of Commerce is pushing Ottawa for lower trade barriers, regulatory reform, and support for small business when it tables the next federal budget.

The chamber, which represents tens of thousands of Canadian businesses, is to publish Thursday a list of 10 “opportunities for economic success,” hopeful that Finance Minister Bill Morneau will pick up on some of its recommendations for use in his 2017 federal budget.

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The chamber’s recommendations, a copy of which was provided exclusively to the National Post, fall on what chamber president Perrin Beatty calls the “uncertain canvas” of global economic conditions.

“However, we continue to possess important advantages, including our rich resource inheritance, the skills and industry of our citizens and our proximity to the world’s richest market,” Beatty writes in the introduction.

Recognizing that Canada’s competitiveness abroad may be under threat, the chamber has three recommendations that speak to maintaining and boosting a strong export economy.