<p>Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax: How do Canada’s gateway city-regions position themselves within global value chains? How do they plan and deliver transportation infrastructures that facilitate trade? And why do their strategies raise democratic concerns? Gateways to Trade compares the approaches to trade-enabling transportation investment in these four urban centres to provide a novel perspective on trade policy.</p> <p>The authors investigate local urban governance relating to global production networks, value chains, and trade. They show that in planning transportation infrastructu