How Tariffs Are Changing Canadian Business and Trade
Barry Murphy is the founder and COO of Shippers First Logistics in Mississauga — and someone who has spent the better part of four decades in one of the least-seen but most essential corners of the economy: freight forwarding. If a product crossed a border to reach you, someone like Barry made that happen. It's a world of air, ocean and over-the-road freight, of customs and paperwork and timing — and it only becomes visible to the rest of us when something goes wrong.
What makes Barry a great guest is that he's two things at once. He's an entrepreneur — someone who, after years inside the industry, decided to build his own firm and put his name behind how it should be done. And he's an industry steward — he sits on the board of CIFFA, the national freight-forwarders' association, helping shape how the whole sector responds to what is, frankly, one of the most turbulent moments in the history of cross-border trade: tariffs and counter-tariffs, a trade agreement under review, and freight capacity swinging wildly. So this conversation is about both — the long road of building a logistics business, and a plain-English read on what's happening to trade right now and what it means for anyone in Canada who ships, sells or sources across a border.
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