North America's Trilateral Talks in Mexico City

EPISODE: North America’s Trilateral Summit





GUESTS:  


Marco Castillo, Co-Executive Director of Global Exchange


Jim Hodgson, Canadian Journalist





BACKGROUND:


The North American Leaders' Summit (NALS), sometimes called the
Three Amigos Summit in the popular press,[1][2][3] is the
trilateral summit between the prime minister of Canada, the
president of Mexico, and the president of the United States.[4]
The summits were initially held as part of the Security and
Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), a continent-level
dialogue between the three countries established in 2005, and
continued after SPP became inactive in 2009.[5][6]


The United States, Mexico and Canada on Tuesday, January 10 vowed
to tighten economic ties, producing more goods regionally and
boosting semiconductor output, even as integration is hampered by
an ongoing dispute over Mexico's energy policies.


U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Mexico
City and pledged to beef up supply chains after weathering
serious disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic.


"We're working to a future to strengthen our cooperation on
supply chains and critical minerals so we can continue to
accelerate in our efforts to build the technologies of tomorrow -
right here ion North America," Biden said in a joint news
conference with his fellow leaders after their meeting.


Lopez Obrador said the region would promote economic development
by creating a committee for import substitution to make North
America less dependent on other parts of the world.


The White House said the three countries would improve legal
pathways for migrants, and Lopez Obrador again urged Biden to
press Congress to enact measures that would regularize the
migration status of millions of Mexicans in the United States.


Trudeau portrayed Canada as an original architect and the
principal guardian of free trade on the continent as he called
for a new era of three-way growth. And, he called on
would-be investors to take a leap of faith similar to the one the
NAFTA pioneers did in the early 1990s.





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ADDITIONAL LINKS:


Solving Immigration Starts with Helping Families Feel Safe at
Home


https://www.newsweek.com/solving-immigration-starts-helping-families-feel-safe-home-opinion-1771414


https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2023/01/10/declaration-north-america-dna





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