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Canada Among Nations, 2011-2012Canada and Mexico's Unfinished Agenda |
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Why Mexico matters to Canada now more than ever and how we can leverage our strategic relationship.
In the decade following the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, economic and political relations between Canada and Mexico have expanded significantly. Today, Canada and Mexico are each other's third largest trading partners and, outside of the United States, Mexico is the second largest tourist and business destination for Canadians.
In the face of increasing competition from Asia, Canada and Mexico need to strengthen their economic competitiveness by leveraging their comparative advantages more effectively. In a multi-polar world, Canada and Mexico have an opportunity to utilize their North-South partnership to provide leadership on the pressing issues of our time, such as climate change, transnational crime, and global crisis management. In Canada Among Nations, 2011-2012 a leading group of Canadian, Mexican, and American academics, policy makers, politicians, journalists, and energy and climate change experts offer substantive recommendations for Ottawa and Mexico City to realise the full potential of their strategic relationship.
Canada Among Nations is the premier source for contemporary insight into pressing Canadian foreign policy issues. This volume continues that tradition by providing students, policy makers, and business people with a timely compendium of expert opinion on Canada-Mexico relations.
In the face of increasing competition from Asia, Canada and Mexico need to strengthen their economic competitiveness by leveraging their comparative advantages more effectively. In a multi-polar world, Canada and Mexico have an opportunity to utilize their North-South partnership to provide leadership on the pressing issues of our time, such as climate change, transnational crime, and global crisis management. In Canada Among Nations, 2011-2012 a leading group of Canadian, Mexican, and American academics, policy makers, politicians, journalists, and energy and climate change experts offer substantive recommendations for Ottawa and Mexico City to realise the full potential of their strategic relationship.
Canada Among Nations is the premier source for contemporary insight into pressing Canadian foreign policy issues. This volume continues that tradition by providing students, policy makers, and business people with a timely compendium of expert opinion on Canada-Mexico relations.
Details
Part of the Canada Among Nations Series (number 26 in series)
296 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773540125
February 2012
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"This year's Canada Among Nations provides a collection of excellent reasons why the Canada-Mexico relationship is so important for both countries and for North American global competitiveness. For too long has our mutual preoccupation with the United States allowed our nations to overlook the potential for closer ties between us. The Mexican, Canadian and American authors in this compendium are persuasive proponents of why both governments urgently need to continue building on our 'unfinished agenda.'" Jorge Castañeda, former Foreign Minister of Mexico
Alex Bugailiskis is a senior official at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, former ambassador to Cuba, and senior distinguished fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), Carleton University.
Andrés Rozental has a lifetime appointment as Eminent Ambassador of Mexico. He is a member of the Centre for International Governance Innovation's (CIGI) International Board of Governors, and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Andrés Rozental has a lifetime appointment as Eminent Ambassador of Mexico. He is a member of the Centre for International Governance Innovation's (CIGI) International Board of Governors, and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Preface
Fen Osler Hampson and Paul Heinbecker ix
Message from Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Honourable John Baird xi
Abbreviations xiii
Part One Introduction
Viva Canada y México
The Honourable Bill Graham and Senator Rosario
Green 5
The Canada-Mexico Relationship:
Looking Back and Ahead
Olga Abizaid and Graeme Douglas 13
Part Two The Bilateral Relationship
The Evolution of Government Relations
Julián Ventura and Jon Allen 27
commercial relations
A Business Perspective
Carlos E. Represas and Oscar Vera 44
Doing Business in Mexico: Some Success Stories
Redline, Scotiabank, Palliser Furniture, Linamar,
Goldcorp, Apotex 52
academic relations
A Partnership Approach to Development
and Global Challenges
Jennifer Jeffs 58
A Joint Research Agenda
Isabel Studer 68
media relations
Beyond Margaritas and Mariachis
Marina Jiménez 78
The Enigma of Canada’s Image:
Neither Dudley Do-Right nor Joe Canadian
José Carreño Figueras 85
subnational relations
New Poles of Power and Inluence
David Parks 92
Everything is Local:
The Growth in Local Networking Relations
José Natividad Gonzalez Parás 101
Part Three The Trilateral Relationship
nafta at 20
nafta: Looking Forward
Luis de la Calle Pardo 111
Reinforcing North American Co-operation
through nafta
John M. Weekes 124
New Directions:
Transportation Hub and Corridor
Stephen Blank 132
energy: the untapped potential
Expanding Energy Co-operation
Lourdes Melgar 144
Energy: The Continental Bridge
Joseph M. Dukert 160
North America in 2020: Two Visions
Robert A. Pastor 178
Part Four Regional Partnerships
regional co-operation
The Canada-Mexico Relationship in a Latin American
and Transpaciic Coniguration
Carlos Heredia Zubieta 189
Shared Interests in an Expanded Regional Agenda
Alex Bugailiskis and Ed Dosman 198
regional security
Hemispheric Security: The Canada-Mexico Conundrum
Reid Morden 214
Mexico and Canada: Confronting Organized Crime
through Enhanced Security Co-operation
Raúl Benítez Manaut and Athanasios Hristoulas 221
Part Five A Global Agenda
global collaboration
Making the Case for Multilateral Co-operation between
Canada and Mexico
Enrique Berruga-Filloy 235
Collaboration on Global Issues - a Democratic Dividend
for Canada and Mexico?
Philip Oxhorn 242
climate change
Lessons from Cancún for North America
Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba and Berenice
Díaz Ceballos 250
Climate Change and North America
David Runnalls 257
Conclusion: Canada and Mexico -
Moving the Agenda Forward
Ambassador Guillermo E. Rishchynski 263
Contributors 269
Fen Osler Hampson and Paul Heinbecker ix
Message from Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Honourable John Baird xi
Abbreviations xiii
Part One Introduction
Viva Canada y México
The Honourable Bill Graham and Senator Rosario
Green 5
The Canada-Mexico Relationship:
Looking Back and Ahead
Olga Abizaid and Graeme Douglas 13
Part Two The Bilateral Relationship
The Evolution of Government Relations
Julián Ventura and Jon Allen 27
commercial relations
A Business Perspective
Carlos E. Represas and Oscar Vera 44
Doing Business in Mexico: Some Success Stories
Redline, Scotiabank, Palliser Furniture, Linamar,
Goldcorp, Apotex 52
academic relations
A Partnership Approach to Development
and Global Challenges
Jennifer Jeffs 58
A Joint Research Agenda
Isabel Studer 68
media relations
Beyond Margaritas and Mariachis
Marina Jiménez 78
The Enigma of Canada’s Image:
Neither Dudley Do-Right nor Joe Canadian
José Carreño Figueras 85
subnational relations
New Poles of Power and Inluence
David Parks 92
Everything is Local:
The Growth in Local Networking Relations
José Natividad Gonzalez Parás 101
Part Three The Trilateral Relationship
nafta at 20
nafta: Looking Forward
Luis de la Calle Pardo 111
Reinforcing North American Co-operation
through nafta
John M. Weekes 124
New Directions:
Transportation Hub and Corridor
Stephen Blank 132
energy: the untapped potential
Expanding Energy Co-operation
Lourdes Melgar 144
Energy: The Continental Bridge
Joseph M. Dukert 160
North America in 2020: Two Visions
Robert A. Pastor 178
Part Four Regional Partnerships
regional co-operation
The Canada-Mexico Relationship in a Latin American
and Transpaciic Coniguration
Carlos Heredia Zubieta 189
Shared Interests in an Expanded Regional Agenda
Alex Bugailiskis and Ed Dosman 198
regional security
Hemispheric Security: The Canada-Mexico Conundrum
Reid Morden 214
Mexico and Canada: Confronting Organized Crime
through Enhanced Security Co-operation
Raúl Benítez Manaut and Athanasios Hristoulas 221
Part Five A Global Agenda
global collaboration
Making the Case for Multilateral Co-operation between
Canada and Mexico
Enrique Berruga-Filloy 235
Collaboration on Global Issues - a Democratic Dividend
for Canada and Mexico?
Philip Oxhorn 242
climate change
Lessons from Cancún for North America
Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba and Berenice
Díaz Ceballos 250
Climate Change and North America
David Runnalls 257
Conclusion: Canada and Mexico -
Moving the Agenda Forward
Ambassador Guillermo E. Rishchynski 263
Contributors 269
