Dawson Strategic

Join panelists Laura Dawson, Gerald D. Chipeur and Peter Foster for an Economic Club of Canada lunch in Toronto on Wednesday June 13th. This panel will discuss the legal, policy, and political challenges that Canada and the U.S. need to overcome in order to create a more prosperous relationship. For more information or to register, click here. [...]

Spring 2012 events for Dawson Strategic January 30: Attending the US Chamber of Commerce public consultations on the Beyond the Border Action Plan in Washington, DC, followed by the US Department of Commerce Working Groups on US-Canada Regulatory Cooperation on January 31. February 9: Releasing a paper on Canada’s prospective role in the Trans-Pacfic Partnership through [...]

Canada comes and goes, but it does not stay: Mapping a Strategy for Canada’s engagement in Asia Wendy Dobson (2011), “Canada, China and Rising Asia: A Strategic Proposal,” Canadian Council of Chief Executives (October). Five of the world’s top 20 economies are in Asia. China is on course to become the world’s largest economy in the next [...]

In an OpEd published in ipolitics.ca, Stefania Bartucci and I argue that  while US actions on KXL have awakened Canada to the need to seek new energy markets on its own terms, but good politics are not always good business. Canada and the U.S. share both the problems and profits of the oil sands. Few would argue [...]

The Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness Action Plan (a.k.a the Canada-U.S. Border Plan) looks like a great deal but the devil is in the details. Sustained political attention is needed to make sure that commitments are met.  Here’s Dawson talking about the deal on CTV News , quoted in Huffington Post, and in Canadian Press. [...]

With the new US-Canada border deal attracting so much attention in Canada, my Canada Institute colleague Paul Frazer and I thought it was important to generate some attention in the U.S., especially in border communities where better access to Canada for traders and travellers translates into easier participation in cross-border supply chains and regional economic growth. With presidential elections looming, it [...]

Laura Dawson will host a panel discussion of Robert Pastor’s new book, The North American Idea on Thursday, November 3, 4:00 p.m.  at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington DC. Discussants will be Gary Doer, Ambassador of Canada to the United States and and  Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States. In The North American [...]

While we wait for the Beyond the Border and Regulatory Cooperation announcements, some media have started to fixate on irritants as evidence that the larger Canada-US co-operation initiatives are impossible.  It’s true that elements of  the Keystone XL pipeline permitting process have turned to street theatre, that CBP did, in a multi-hundred page report, use [...]

  I don’t know if Finance Minister Flaherty prefers to wear a sword for cross-border crusading or whether web-slinging wristbands are more his thing but since the election he has been a man on a mission.  Some of his targets: U.S. Internal Revenue Service – The Minister says the IRS is going too hard on [...]

No Fence – David V. Aguilar, deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection says, “Any fence that is being considered at the northern border is specific to a port of entry footprint or complex. There is no intent at the current time to build a fence between the ports of entry.” Thanks Bilateralist.com for [...]