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White Paper
Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership
by Greg Anderson and Christopher Sands

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The leaders of the three North American countries met August 20-21 in Montebello, Quebec for the third in a series of annual summits that have been held to oversee a process of trilateral negotiations on economic regulation and security procedures called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP.

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This conference will review the progress of the SPP negotiations, the status of relations among the three NAFTA partners, and look ahead to what may be next for North American economic integration and continental security.

8:30 a.m. Registration

9:00 a.m. Panel 1: Presentation of a new Hudson Institute White Paper, Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership

Chair: Ken Weinstein, Hudson Institute
Authors:
Greg Anderson, University of Alberta
Christopher Sands, Hudson Institute

9:45 a.m. Keynote Presentation: The Honorable James R. Jones, Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP

10:15 a.m. Panel 2: Debate at Montebello - Economic and Trade Relations among Canada, Mexico and the United States

Chair: Jaime Daremblum, Hudson Institute
Panelists:
Daniel Schwanen, Centre for International Governance and Innovation
Sidney Weintraub, Center for Strategic and International Studies

11:00 a.m. Panel 3: After Montebello: The view from the summit, and where we go from here

Chair: John O’Sullivan, Hudson Institute
Panelists:
John Fonte, Hudson Institute
Barbara Kotschwar, Peterson Institute
Robert Pastor, American University

12:00 noon Adjourn

Hudson is grateful to the William H. Donner Foundation of New York and the Donner Canadian Foundation of Toronto for their generous support of our work on North America.