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North American Linkages

Maximizing the benefits associated with being a part of the North American economic space, while simultaneously safeguarding the Canadian “way”, has been a key policy concern for Canada in recent decades. This challenge has become central to Canada's policy agenda since the implementation of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA, 1989), and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, 1994), and continues to dominate the policy agenda today.

To help define and understand the challenges and opportunities associated with the evolving economic integration of Canada and the United States, the PRI conducted three inter-related research projects.

• International Regulatory Co-operation
• Moving Toward a Customs Union
• The Emergence of Cross-Border Regions
  

For background information on this project, please click here.