Canada's Fluid Borders: Trade, Investment, Travel, Migration

by Geoffrey Hale, Greg Anderson (Editor)

Overview

Crossing international borders implies much more than simply going through checkpoints. Engaging major domestic political, technical, and administrative aspects that shape international policy and regulatory cooperation, this book uncovers and analyzes factors that govern economic activity and human interactivity across Canada's "fluid" borders in a changing geopolitical environment. Trade and investment policies must navigate the challenges from the interactions and limits of Canada's multiple commercial agreements with other countries that involve the bordering of energy trade, food safety, and related environmental and public health matters. By drawing on an innovative transdisciplinary reconceptualization of the border as being "fluid"-reflecting different and often cross-cutting objectives-Canada's Fluid Borders offers readers fresh outlooks on the leading geopolitical and socioeconomic issues pressing Canadian policymakers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780776629360
Publisher:	University of Ottawa Press
Publication date:	01/05/2021
Series:	Collection 101
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Greg Anderson is professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He earned a master's degree in American history from the University of Alberta and completed his PhD at Johns Hopkins University. Both are widely published in the fields of political economy, international trade and investment policies, Canada-US relations, North American integration, and border-related issues.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices xi

Acknowledgements xiii

Foreword xv

1 Multi-Level, Multi-Layer 1

Managing Canada's Multiple Borders for Goods, Services, People, and Capital Geoffrey Hale Greg Anderson

Intergovernmental, Neo-Functional, or Politicized Borders?

The Policy-Making Landscape

Outline of the Book

2 Canada's Shifting Borders 20

An Overview of Market and Human Movements Geoffrey Hale

Changing Patterns of Trade and Travel

Trade Patterns and Border Infrastructure

International Disruptions and Border Management

Shifting Borders and Human Movements

Conclusion

3 Canada and Cross-Cumulation in Rules of Origin Andrew (Sandy) Moroz 45

Key Elements of ROO

Cross-Cumulation

FRC and Canada

Policy Options

The Technical Challenges of Implementing FRC

Approaches to FRC

Potential Cross-Cumulation Partners

Conclusion

4 A Spaghetti Bowl of Investment Rules Greg Anderson 65

Investment Spaghetti

The Origins of Investment Spaghetti

North American Investment Spaghetti

Grated National-Security Cheese

Untangling the Spaghetti

5 Energy Borders on the Move 89

Competing Policy Imperatives in a New Political and Economic Landscape Monica Gottinger

Contemporary Energy Policy-Making

The Economic Rock Market Imperatives

The Progressive Hard Place

Are Canadian Governments Finding Their Way Between the Economic Rock and the Progressive Hard Place?

Conclusion; What Should Governments Do?

6 Cross-Border Tourism-Policy Coordination in the Pacific Northwest Economic Region Patricia Dewey Lambert 114

Tourism in the Cross-Border Economy of the Pacific Northwest

The Regional Public-Policy Governance Structure of PNWER

How PNWER's Tourism Working Group Works

Analysis: Regional Tourism-Policy Cooperation Within the PNWER

7 Stumbling or Striving? 143

Canada's Pursuit of Reciprocity in Negotiating Temporary Entry in Trade Agreements Meredith B. Lilly

Existing Knowledge on Canadian Temporary-Entry Policy

The Central Role of Reciprocity in Canada's Approach

Should Reciprocity Still Apply to Future Negotiations?

Conclusion: Moving Forward with Sword and Shield

Policy Recommendations

8 Food Safety and Technical Standards 164

Policy Priorities for Cross-Border Agri-Food Supply Chains William A. Kerr Jill E. Hobbs

NAFTA and Food Safety

The CUSMA and Food Safely

Preparing to Deal with Food Safety and Technical Standards Issues under the CUSMA

9 Cross-Cutting Borders 180

Managing Challenges, Complexity, and Change Greg Anderson Geoffrey Hale

List of Contributors 193