How does the SPP affect Canadians?
The SPP provides benefits for Canadian businesses and citizens alike. For our businesses, the SPP seeks to leverage North American strengths, including its vast market and integrated value chains, as a platform for innovation and global success. Under the SPP, the government is working to ensure that Canadian companies maintain their competitive advantage through such means as securing continued access to U.S. suppliers and markets, working on smart border initiatives and related infrastructure improvements, and encouraging compatibility of regulations through cooperation while maintaining high standards of health, safety and environmental protection. For our citizens, the SPP is aimed at improving quality of life and includes initiatives to: improve traveller safety, reduce wait times at the Canada-U.S. border, safeguard public health through North American pandemic planning, promote development of clean energy and environmental technologies, strengthen food and product safety, and im
