US Canada Relations case study


 

US Canada Relations case study

[Room 1425 10am- 12pm]

 

"Getting attention of Big Brothers"

 

 

Intro by Jack Austin

 

 

 

Alexander Moens

 

 

Brenda Swick

 

 

- what can be done with US political system 

 

 

Peter Leitch

 

 

James Dean 

 

 

 

 

Four Big Points:

 

 

- harmonize the border (economic/security space) 

-  use energy as leverage 

- let us reduce competitive distinction so we can build stronger sectoral industry

-take control of banking system (Wall Street)

 

 

 

 

- drift in the relationship (recoverable?) 

     1. shift in power (political/economic power) - politician tend to look to the South

     2. demographic (Canada- euro-asian society) (US - euro-latino society)

     3. security (since 9/11) - thicking the US border, huge decline the US citizens/residents to Canada

                    tourism, eocnomic decline

- can be a lot harmonization that we can do

- want the US attention? why? 

- any big ideas to turn the relationship into different way

- should be measuring what we can do internationally

 

Swick - regulations: ex) container sizes

          - energy

 

 

 

- water : not eager to send/export water to the south 

 

Moens - think about water at home, potential commodity

 

 

 

- role of some national relations in Canada and the US

 

Dean - border thicken because of the interest; can't negotiate properly between two nations

 

 

- how important Canadian soverignty ,  how different are we from the US

 

 

- Canada using closeness to the US; do we have leverage for the US? 

 

 

 

- North American cultural system Culture - being able to tell our own stories

 

Dean - since NAFTA, our culture has been more distinct

 

Moen - self-confidence as a Canadian

 

Leitch - no barriers to deisgn programs

 

 

- teaching US/Canada studies - good idea

- having influence on US policy 

- Canadian values

 

 

- how do we get Canada political mandate to harmonize?

 

Swick - Canada lost momentum to China

 

Moen - more free trade, more choices for consumer

 

 

 

 

Summary by Austin 

 

 

Summary by Dean

 

 

Summary by Leitch

 

 

Summary by Swick

 

 

end of session