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

by Geoffrey Hale (Editor), Greg Anderson (Editor), Patricia Dewey-Lambert (Contribution by), Monica Gattinger (Contribution by), Jill Hobbs (Contribution by)

Overview

Trade and investment policies face a changing geopolitical environment. They also face challenges from the interactions and limits of Canada’s multiple trade agreements with other countries.
These challenges take on varied forms in different sectors that involve the bordering of energy trade, food safety, and related environmental and public health issues. Similarly, bordering dynamics differ significantly for cross border flows of tourism, skilled labour, and irregular migration.
This book uncovers and analyzes factors that govern economic activity and human interaction across Canada’s “fluid” border. The contributors to this collection engage major domestic political, technical, and administrative factors that shape the conditions for and constraints on effective international policy and regulatory cooperation.
Published in English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780776629384
Publisher:	University of Ottawa Press
Publication date:	01/05/2021
Series:	Collection 101
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Geoffrey Hale is professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge. Following his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, he completed his master’s and PhD studies at the University of Western Ontario. 

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. 

Geoffrey Hale est professeur au Département de science politique de l’Université Lethbridge. Après ses études de baccalauréat à l’Université Princeton, il a poursuivi des études de deuxième et de troisième cycles à l’Université Western Ontario. 

Greg Anderson est professeur au Département de science politique de l’Université de l’Alberta. Détenteur d’un diplôme de maîtrise en histoire américaine à l’Université de l’Alberta, il a complété son doctorat à l’Université John Hopkins. 

Geoffrey Hale is a professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge. Following his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, he completed his masters and PhD studies at the University of Western Ontario.

Greg Anderson is a professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He earned a masters’ degree in American History from the University of Alberta and completed his PhD at Johns Hopkins University.

Read an Excerpt

''Popular understanding may conceive of borders as formal boundaries separating the territories of different countries – or perhaps the administrative locations ("ports of entry") at which individuals or goods pass from the territory of one country to another. However, the continuing growth and diversification of trade, investment, travel, and various forms of migration increase the importance and interaction of bordering processes.''

Table of Contents

1. Multi-Level, Multi-Layer
Managing Canada’s Multiple Borders for Goods, Services, People, and Capital by Geoffrey Hale and Greg Anderson

Intergovernmental, Neo-Functional, or Politicized Borders The Policy-Making Landscape Outline of the Book

 

2. Canada’s Shifting Borders
An Overview of Market and Human Movements by 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 
by Andrew (Sandy) Moroz

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 

A Spaghetti Bowl of Investment Rules
by Greg Anderson 

Investment Spaghetti 
The Origins of Investment Spaghetti 
North American Investment Spaghetti 
Grated National-Security Cheese 
Untangling the Spaghetti

 
4. Energy Borders on the Move
Competing Policy Imperatives in a New Political and Economic Landscape by Monica Gattinger 

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? 

 

5. Cross-Border Tourism-Policy Coordination in the Pacific Northwest Economic Region
by Patricia Dewey Lambert 

Tourism in the Cross-Border Economy of the Pacific Northwest
The Regional Public-Policy Governance Structure of PNWER 
How PWNR’s Tourism Working Group Works 
Analysis: Regional Tourism-Policy Cooperation Within the PNWER

 

7. Stumbling or Striving?

Canada’s Pursuit of Reciprocity in Negotiating Temporary Entry in Trade Agreements by 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

Policy Priorities for Cross-Border Agri-Food Supply Chains by William A. Kerr and Jill E. Hobbs 
NAFTA and Food Safety
The CUSMA and Food Safety
Preparing to Deal with Food Safety and Technical Standards Issues under the CUSMA

 

9. Cross-Cutting Borders 
Managing Challenges, Complexity, and Change by Greg Anderson and Geoffrey Hale 

 

List of Contributors