Dawson Strategic

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Buy America provisions of the proposed American Jobs Act do not intentionally  target Canada but they will disrupt cross-border supply chains.  In an OpEd published in the Toronto Star, Paul Frazer and I argue that the Buy America crisis is another example of how Canada and the United States need to move from crisis management [...]

As the clock ticks down on the Canada-US Beyond the Border and Regulatory Cooperation initiatives, businesses and interest groups are taking advantage of the public comment process to influence the governmental agendas for these programs.  The US sought comments on regulatory cooperation through a Federal Register notice while Canada established a dedicated consultation website.  Both of [...]