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    North American Leaders Meet, With Brexit and Trump Clouding Ties

    So is the US functionally already in the North American Union? Or, have we just been paying for it all along.

    It would explain why our immigration laws have been ignored to allow the "free flow" of people within the borders of a North American Union that the citizens of this country neither know about or approved.

    North American Leaders Meet, With Brexit and Trump Clouding Ties


    Josh Wingrove josh_wingrove
    Mike Dorning mikedorning

    June 28, 2016 — 4:00 AM CDT


    President Barack Obama pauses while speaking at the White House on June 27, 2016, in Washington.
    Photographer: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images


    The shadow of Brexit and rising protectionist sentiment loom large as U.S. President Barack Obama meets his North American counterparts to bolster the world’s largest trading bloc.

    Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto hold the so-called Three Amigos summit Wednesday in Ottawa, with fallout from the U.K.’s vote last week to leave the European Union raising pressure to show confidence in their own alliance. The countries will vow to produce more clean powerand cut methane emissions while strengthening economic ties.

    Risks to North America are palpable, as Brexit roils global financial markets and anti-trade rhetoric ramps up in the U.S. presidential campaign. The meeting -- Obama’s last, and Trudeau’s first -- comes amid opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership and disputes over visas, lumber, and beef. Yet all three countries see the summit as an opportunity to double down on easing trade barriers.

    “This is a moment for North America to say we stand united, we stand together,” Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau’s trade minister, told Bloomberg TV Canada’s Pamela Ritchie on Monday. “And as a continent, we have a partnership that believes in the importance of building bridges rather than building walls.”

    All three countries have signed but not yet ratified the 12-nation TPP. The deal faces hurdles in Congress and is opposed by presumptive U.S. presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, with the latter vowing to “rip up” the North America Free-Trade Agreement and other pacts.

    Increased ‘Uneasiness’

    Republicans, whose support is critical, are wary of getting out of step with the rank and file, having lost high-profile party figures in populist revolts. Brexit will only increase “uneasiness” toward trade, according to former Republican Congressman Vin Weber, now a partner at lobbying firm Mercury LLC. “What happened in Britain and what’s going on in American presidential politics absolutely has an effect: It makes everybody more nervous,” he said.

    Wednesday’s summit is the first since 2014. Last year’s was postponed by Trudeau’s predecessor Stephen Harper in part because of tensions over the Keystone XL pipeline, which Obama rejected after the new Canadian prime minister took office. This year’s meeting will “focus on creating jobs, strengthening North American communities, and building a clean growth economy,” Trudeau said in a statement.

    “Certainly Brexit will be on the agenda,” said Mark Feierstein, the U.S. National Security Council’s senior director for western-hemisphere affairs. “It’ll be evident to Americans and people beyond that when North America speaks and acts as a single unit, it’s really for the good of our citizens and people around the world.”

    Environment, Immigration

    The countries will pledge to produce half their electricity through non-carbon-emitting sources by 2025. That “aggressive goal” will require “ambitious” measures, according to senior Obama adviser Brian Deese. Mexico is also joining a pledge made in March to cut methane emissions.

    This week’s talks come amid a dispute over a visa restrictions Canada placed on Mexicans to stem asylum claims. Trudeau, who took power last November, campaigned on “immediately” dropping the requirement, yet it remains in place.

    “There’s a lot of confusion in Mexico, hurt feelings and disenchantment with Canada over this issue,” said Laura Macdonald, a professor of political science at Ottawa’s Carleton University.

    Canada, meanwhile, has pushed Mexico to expand market access for beef exports. Trudeau and Pena Nieto are expected to address both issues in a bilateral meeting Tuesday.

    The Brexit vote was “a very big shock” for the three leaders, whose economies under Nafta collectively exceed that of the EU, according to John Kirton, director of the University of Toronto’s G-7 Research Group. As a result, the trio is under more pressure to display unity and declare “globalization is good for us and we still deeply believe it and are reaping the rewards as we speak,” Kirton said.Polls show a wave of opposition to trade agreements. Americans, by a margin of 65 percent to 22 percent, say they want more restrictions on international trade, according to a Bloomberg poll in March. The same poll found Americans believe Nafta is a trade deal gone awry that has done more harm than good.

    Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama said the Brexit vote could influence the evolution of American opinion, in the same way the era of Margaret Thatcher preceded President Ronald Reagan’s election. “The failed European Union experiment, and Great Britain’s rejection of it, must serve as a wake-up call for all of us in America,” Sessions said in a statement.

    Deals in Limbo

    The 12 TPP nations have until February 2018 to ratify the pact. Chances of the U.S. doing so this year were slipping even before the Brexit vote, according to Alec Phillips, a Washington-based economist with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “Our expectation was already reasonably low that it would happen,” he said.

    Trudeau, who describes himself as “extremely pro-trade,” has the parliamentary majority to approve the deal though he hasn’t yet taken a clear position. Mexico has already submitted TPP to its Senate for review and expects a vote later this year.

    Canada has instead focused on its trade pact with the EU, which it still hopes to ratify under the Brexit cloud. Canada made changes to the pact this year and Freeland said Brexit will hasten the push -- a view not shared by Harper’s former foreign minister.

    “The EU trade deal is not helped by what happened,” John Baird said in a Bloomberg TV interview last week. “There’s growing anti-globalization sentiment, there’s anger at elites. This is the big unknown the British people have thrown at all of Europe.”

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    Obama, Mexican president slam Trump's 'isolationism'

    By SUSAN CRABTREE • 6/29/16 2:04 PM

    President Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto met one-on-one in Ottawa, Canada, to discuss clean energy and climate change, but from the two leaders' remarks, Donald Trump and the state of the 2016 U.S. presidential election appeared to be a major focus.

    After the meeting, Obama condemned Trump's derogatory remarks about illegal Mexican immigrants, who the billionaire businessman last year referred to as "criminals" and "rapists."

    "All too often we're hearing rhetoric that ignores the enormous contributions that have been made by Mexican-Americans and the enormous strengths we draw from the relationship," he said.

    During his talk with Nieto, Obama said they discussed the continuing strength of the "business, commercial, trade and people-to-people ties" between the two countries.

    "The United States is not just a friend and neighbor of Mexico, but the very character of the United States is shaped by Mexican-Americans who have shared our culture, our politics, our business," he said.

    Nieto also didn't mention Trump by name, but he clearly denounced the anti-immigration rhetoric from the presumptive GOP nominee.

    "Isolationism cannot bring prosperity to a society," Nieto said. "... We have stressed the importance and relevance of working as a team and standing together."

    Nieto also said he and Obama spoke about the continued need for more security cooperation and additional work needed to combat drug trafficking.

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