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Earlier this year, the Woodrow Wilson International Center聽for Scholars and partner organizations launched our North America 2.0 project聽which seeks to strengthen regional cooperation through research, analysis, and policy proposals.

The Center hosted a discussion on opportunities for enhanced continental cooperation as we published聽our first round of North America 2.0 policy papers on the topics of border security; migration; cybersecurity and critical infrastructure; military cooperation; higher education; and workforce development.聽

Selected Quotes

Richard Sanders

"Structures are in place, relationships are in place, and there鈥檚 a future for security cooperation among North American partners.鈥�

鈥淚f trucks and trains and electrons are moving across all three borders, then a purely bilateral approach is not enough.鈥�

鈥淲e do need a dialogue at all sorts of levels, but it鈥檚 got to be on what works. There鈥檚 systems that have worked like NORAD鈥� but we need to be cool and matter of fact and build on what we鈥檝e got.鈥�

Luisa Parraguez-Kobek

鈥淚f there鈥檚 one clear example of a borderless North America, it is cyberspace.鈥�

鈥淸Critical infrastructure] is one of the areas where deepening cooperation and definitely focusing on best practices at a trilateral level is going to advance the security of North America.鈥�

鈥淲e do live in a borderless North America in many ways already, because we are already interdependent in infrastructure and supply chains鈥� We have to push forward on that level and not on separation or our differences. Let鈥檚 focus on what we鈥檙e good at together.鈥�

Paul Stockton

鈥淭here are interconnections that cross our borders鈥擴.S., Canada, and Mexico鈥攁nd electrons don鈥檛 care whether they are Mexican, Canadian, or U.S. electrons. They flow according to the laws of physics and not according to the laws of federal governments in any of our countries.鈥�

鈥淩ight now we鈥檙e at risk of having the United States, Canada, and Mexico go their separate ways in terms of securing their supply chains and that doesn鈥檛 make a lick of sense鈥� Given the interconnected nature of our grids, we need a shared approach to supply chain resilience that respects the sovereignty and differing circumstances of each country but also accounts for the fact that we are dependent on each other and we should move forward together.鈥�

鈥淭he idea of a defensive perimeter is old-think鈥� that鈥檚 only part of the challenge in the cyber and above all, in the information era.鈥�

Jennifer Fox

鈥淲e have to do a better job at trying to find a way to demonstrate to the businesses that are out there鈥� that we hear them and that we鈥檙e taking them seriously and that we鈥檙e making small efforts that aren鈥檛 sexy, that don鈥檛 make headlines, but really do have an impact on the everyday bottom line dollar for those trading partners.鈥�

鈥淚 don鈥檛 think that we have done a good job of having an embedded knowledge management system into the bureaucratic function of government to help inform policy. And that is something I would say to government, please stop making policy without having informed knowledge at your fingertips.鈥�

鈥淓very Canadian truck that crosses the U.S. border invariably is going to turn around and come back. Every Mexican truck that鈥檚 crossing the U.S. border is going to turn around and go back鈥� So, if we think that we are protecting our sovereignty by building up walls with respect to these invisible borders, we are not doing that, we are creating invisible impediments to efficiency within our own continent and it just doesn鈥檛 make sense.鈥�

Fernando Le贸n Garc铆a

鈥淭he coming together of the different parties did in fact promote more collaboration than existed before. What you had before was isolated collaboration that was bilateral鈥� not trilateral. All of a sudden there was a lot of effervescence in terms of collaboration.鈥�

鈥淲e鈥檝e learned and we should acknowledge and celebrate the differences that are distinctive for the U.S., for Canada, and for Mexico. But, by all means, let鈥檚 recognize and work on the potential synergies that make North America unique.鈥�

Amb. E. Anthony Wayne

鈥淭here鈥檚 a lot of work to do, and that鈥檚 why we really need to get people together鈥� We need national level support for getting these dialogues going. Even if we get them going, it鈥檚 going to take a number of years to start building up.鈥�

鈥淭his is an opportune moment. Everybody suffered during the pandemic, and they鈥檝e experimented, and they鈥檝e learned. So this is a good moment to start building on that difficult experience and say 鈥榦kay, where do we go?鈥欌�澛�

Andrew Selee

鈥淲hen the three heads of state of North America get together, shouldn鈥檛 we be talking about migration in the hemisphere? Clearly, we should be talking about migration. Before it was a tough topic to talk about because it was lopsided鈥� now we鈥檙e not talking about that.鈥�

聽鈥淭here鈥檚 an opportunity to think about development in Central America鈥� There are different visions [between the United States and Mexico] about what should be done, but there is a meeting point that is interesting.鈥�

鈥淗aving Canada at the table to talk about development is really good for Mexico and the U.S. because the Canadians do development well鈥� I often think that when Mexico and the U.S. sit down to talk about migration, it is immensely transactional. When they鈥檙e in the room with Canadians, they start to think more strategically.鈥�

2:30 pm | Opening Remarks聽

• Christopher Sands | Director, Canada Institute

2:35鈥�3:50 pm | Securing Our Continent

Speakers

• Richard Sanders聽| Global Fellow, Canada Institute
• Luisa Parraguez-Kobek聽| Global Affairs and International Security Professor, Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey
• Paul Stockton聽| President, Paul N. Stockton LLC
• Jennifer Fox聽| Senior Director, Transportation, Infrastructure & Regulatory Policy, Canadian Chamber of Commerce
• Moderator and Presenter:聽Chappell Lawson聽| Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT; Global Fellow, Mexico Institute

3:50鈥�4:55 pm | Strengthening our Future through Education, Workforce Development and Human Mobility

Speakers

• Fernando Le贸n Garc铆a聽| President, CETYS University
• Amb. E. Anthony Wayne聽| Distinguished Diplomat in Residence, School of International Service, American University;聽Advisory Board Co-Chair, Mexico Institute
• Andrew Selee聽| President, Migration Policy Institute; Advisory Board Member, Mexico Institute
• Moderator: Laura Dawson聽| Principal Program Manager (Americas), Amazon Web Services

4:55 pm | Closing聽Remarks聽

• Andrew I. Rudman聽| Director, Mexico Institute