What Should Canada’s Aims be in Any Renegotiation of NAFTA? (Win) /

The establishment of a globally competitive petroleum industry in North America has tilted the global balance of power and insulated Canada, Mexico and the U. S. from the effects of destabilization in the Middle East. [...] E- commerce in the U. S. alone was just under a $400 billion industry in 2016 and is forecast to increase to $680 billion by 2020.2 In Canada, the industry has increased by 415 per cent in the past five years, from $6.6 billion in 2011 to $34 billion in 2016.3 While Canada under the Trudeau government has endeavoured to prepare for the next generation of the innovation economy, the fundamentals of [...] Mexico is presenting itself in this round of negotiations as a country with a professionalized workforce, the equivalent of Canada and the U. S. Finally, Mexico wants to see certainty in the investment environment and the protection of its investment flows. [...] The value of having a stable democracy with a growing middle class at the southern tip of North America, at the gateway to Central America and the rest of the world, is difficult to overstate. [...] The leaked draft of the letter from the office of the U. S. Trade Representative gave one set of clues, the executive orders on trade issues and the Robert Lighthizer confirmation hearings provided others, and the Foreign Trade Barriers report offered yet another.