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1. Saving the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership: The Case for a North American Standards and Regulatory Area

   The Security and Prosperity (SPP) launched in 2005 by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/Security_Prosperity_Partnership.pdf ...

2. Fears about SPP Over-hyped and Unfounded

   Appeared in the Guelph Mercury, Peterborough Examiner and Penticton Herald Since Canada is a trading nation, it seems reasonable that our government should work towards creating an environment that allows Canadian businesses to import or export goods with ...

3. The Peace Bridge Project and the Need to Harmonize Canada-US Border Security

   Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen In April this year, Canada lost another opportunity to work with our American neighbours to enhance border security and take a step towards improving cross-border trade. A pilot project envisaged in the 2004 Canada-U.S. ...

4. Canadian American Relations in 2007

   The state of the relationship between Canada and the United States in 2007 is in transition. A recent period of chilled political relations, highly publicized trade disputes, and lack of substantial progress in defence relations is coming to an end. ...

5. Time to pull the plug on the Canadian Wheat Board

   Appeared in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix It’s time to put an end to the Canadian Wheat Board, the government-mandated monopoly for marketing barley and wheat in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Peace River District of British Columbia. Dismantling ...

6. Achieving Energy Security through Integrated Canadian-American Markets

   The Canadian-US oil and gas sector has become deeply integrated over the last two decades. This is a success story in which competitive market forces by and large have displaced various attempts at government intervention on both sides of the border. ...

7. Ottawa's Clean Air Plan Gets it Right on Energy and Greenhouse Gases

     The Canadian government’s recent proposal for curbing greenhouse gas has it right concerning the oil and gas industry. By setting targets for big CO2 emitters such as the oil sands industry in the short to medium future (2010), the plan centers on the ...

8. Will Europe Fight? Will Canada Stay?

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, 25 September 2006 European members other than Britain and the Netherlands cannot decide whether to join NATO’s first ground war in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, contenders for the Liberal Party’s leadership in Canada, such as ...

9. BC Mad Cow Case Not Likely to Affect Canada-US Trade

     On April 16, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed British Columbia’s first case of Mad Cow or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). The cattle and beef industry remains concerned about the U.S. border staying open to younger slaughter animals ...

10. Mad Cow: A Case Study in Canadian-American Relations

    The purpose of this paper is to examine the trade, regulatory, and political relationship between Canada and the United States through the lens of a single case study. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/MadCowCaseStudy.pdf ...