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Canada to throw Mexico out of merger?

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A series of recent calls from prominent Canadians for the development of a new bilateral relationship with the United States strongly suggests many Canadians are ready to declare the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America such a failure that Mexico needs to be thrown out of the formula for future North American integration.

With the recent threat of a swine flu pandemic invading the United States from Mexico, millions of Americans raised up once again the cry to secure the nation's southern border and citizens pouring approximately $1.4 billion into the Mexican military under the Merida Initiative to fight the drug war, Mexico increasingly appears to be a nation in chaos.

Since before the fourth trilateral SPP summit in New Orleans in April 2008, reports have circulated out of Canada that the influential C.D. Howe Institute has proposed "to ditch the trilateral SPP model for a more meaningful bilateral trade agreement with the United States," Stuart Trew reported on Canadians.org.

On SPP.gov, the Security and Prosperity Partnership website maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the link that is supposed to display the "Joint Statement" from the New Orleans summit goes to an Obama administration White House website page that has nothing to do with the SPP or the New Orleans summit.
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4 comments // Canada to throw Mexico out of merger?

  • artemis6
  • slarabee
  • Kylsport
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    • slarabee:

      It is the move, first started with Clinton with NAFTA and then with George Bush under the Security and Prosperity Partnership to create a trilateral economic region. Consider the SPP as NAFTA ver. 2.0 which has been scrapped and efforts placed in deriding our economy so as engaging in such a crisis where a regional merger would appear tantalizing.

    • 3 years ago

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