Last week, Justin Trudeau held an impromptu Canada-U.S. Economic Summit in Toronto, the stated purpose of which was to build a resilient long-term prosperity agenda for Canada that is diversified in global trade and breaks down barriers between provinces and territories. While initially held in response to Trump’s looming threat of 25 per cent tariffs, which at that time had already been averted for 30 days, the popular sentiment among the crowd was that, regardless of tariff threats, these nation-building, inter-provincial economic talks were a good idea anyway, and long overdue. Simply put, it’s time to put decades of petty inter-provincial grievances aside to craft a new constitutional promise, not of a railway, but of pipelines that make Canadians more prosperous and unites East and West. But will the attempt be blocked by partisan interests?