Familiar North American irritants – U.S. protectionism, intransigence on continental trade, irregular migration – return to the fore this week as the so-called 'Three Amigos' meet for a trilateral summit in Mexico City. cdnpoli
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“The normal diplomatic recitation of the issues we’d like to discuss together, combined with proximity and history, isn’t enough in the current context for Canada to be where it wants to be, in my judgment.”.Canada, of course, has a vested interest in many of the issues likely to dominate the agenda of the summit, which gets underway in earnest on Tuesday.
“With all the supply chain issues going on in the world, and the opportunity of North America to improve the North American neighborhood supply chains, that’ll be a fairly important item,” Doer said. “Our partnership with Canada and Mexico is crucial to our economic security, prosperity, democratic stability and of course, migration management,” Kirby told a White House press briefing.
“I’m expecting both the Mexican president and the Canadian prime minister to raise this issue with the president to say, ‘Look, we need to have a more continental approach to some of these policies,”‘ Blais told an expert panel Friday hosted by the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas. It follows a fresh crackdown on illegal migrants from Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua, on top of existing restrictions against Venezuelan migrants, that aims to forestall the impact of a possible Supreme Court decision to end Title 42, a Trump-era public-health measure that allows the U.S. to turn away asylum-seekers.
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