The New West  Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA) is an accord between the Governments of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba that creates Canada's largest, barrier-free, interprovincial market. 
  
  Under the NWPTA, British  Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are the first jurisdictions in Canada to commit  to full mutual recognition or reconciliation of their rules affecting trade,  investment or labour mobility so as to remove barriers to the free movement of  goods, services, investment, and people within and between the three provinces.  The NWPTA builds on the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility  Agreement (TILMA) between British Columbia and Alberta and has  the clarity Saskatchewan was seeking on public ownership of Crowns and the  ability of municipalities to support economic development. 
The NWPTA came into effect  July 1, 2010 and has been fully implemented since July 1, 2013.
The first Protocol of Amendment to the NWPTA was signed in January 2015. The  Protocol clarified language around labour mobility and dispute resolution  provisions, and introduced a bid protest mechanism effective July 1, 2015. 
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan Manitoba have also committed to:
- Avoid measures that operate to restrict       or impair trade between or through their territories, or investment or       labour mobility between them. 
 
 
- Treat businesses, investors and workers       of the other two provinces at least as favourably as they treat their own       or those of another jurisdiction. 
 
 
- Mutually recognize or otherwise       reconcile unnecessary differences in their standards and regulations.
 
 
- Be fully transparent, and notify each       other of any proposed measure that is covered by the Agreement. The       objective is to ensure that new measures do not create new impediments.
 
 
- Having an enforceable dispute resolution mechanism that is accessible by governments, businesses, workers and investors in order to ensure that each province lives up to its commitments.




