August 20, 2007

Today While the Press in the U.S. and Mexico Yawns, Harper Hosts Bush and Calderón in Quebec

This analysis was prepared by COHA Research Associate Kathleen Dugan
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Today’s meeting of Mexican President Felipe Calderón, Bush, and Harper in Montebello, is not so much to discuss ways in which to improve the many problems that NAFTA has generated, but to discuss and adopt new measures, agreed upon at an August 14 meeting in Vancouver, on how to tilt the pact in an even more pro-business direction than as of now, without any input from the average citizen or other concerned sectors. In other words, Montebello has been fixed to deliver a new track of pro-business benefits and not to take an inventory of how NAFTA has performed for each nation.
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