Canadian investors would do well to watch how Mexico’s energy sector evolves as Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto champions and enacts the ambitious reforms he promised during the 2012 election. Since taking office, Mr. Pena Nieto has dismantled a longstanding monopoly in the energy sector so that companies located abroad will soon be able to access the country’s vast resources […]
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Mexico’s rise is good for Canada. Really
In late August, Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico’s hard-driving reformist president, gathered with beaming executives from South Korea’s Kia Motors to announce the carmaker will spend US$1 billion on a new assembly plant near the northern city of Monterrey—one more new North American car factory Ontario didn’t get. The deal, Peña Nieto boasted, is part of “the success story that we […]
A vision of North America – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Ronald Reagan intuitively believed in the notion of a North America, distinct in history, geography, shared identity, values and destiny. His announcement in November 1979 that he was a candidate for the presidency included the surprising aspiration for “a North American accord” that would enable the United States, Canada and Mexico together to make the continent “the strongest, most prosperous […]
NAFTA’s junior partners: She loves me, she loves me not | The Economist
NAFTA’s junior partners: She loves me, she loves me not | The Economist.
New Report: Entering the Energy & Environment Policy Frontier | Wilson Center
A new report from Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Nik Nanos, Entering the Energy & Environment Policy Frontier, explores the changing energy landscape in the United States and Canada and identifies energy policy risks and opportunities. Using original public opinion research, in-depth interviews with experts and advocacy groups, and analysis of secondary data, Nanos suggests that the government should not […]
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