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The president of an Ontario construction company with an internal-trade complaint against New Brunswick is scoffing at the improved grade the province received this week for lowering trade barriers.
Lawyers for Ontario company say province treated it unfairly, violating interprovincial agreement
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Jul 16, 2026 3:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 28 minutes ago
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Derek Martin, the president of Julmac Contracting Ltd., wasn’t convinced by the top marks a business group just gave New Brunswick on internal trade matters. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
The president of an Ontario construction company with an internal-trade complaint against New Brunswick is scoffing at the improved grade the province received this week for lowering trade barriers.
Derek Martin told CBC News he doesn’t buy the A grade in an annual report card from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
“It’s based on assumptions of what they’re going to do going forward,” said Martin, the president of Julmac Contracting Ltd. “It’s not based on facts today.
“It’d be great going to university, getting an A on my first exam and I don’t have to do anything.”
Martin’s company is arguing under the 2017 Canadian Free Trade Agreement that New Brunswick discriminated against it on several contracts because it’s from outside the province.
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