First Amendment Forum Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication Arizona State University, Downtown Phoenix Campus  Phoenix, Arizona. 

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With the recent issuance by the Department of Homeland Security of the Northern Border Strategy a number of border issues have been framed that this symposium will examine in the context of Canada-United States-Mexico trade and security. The symposium will bring together academics, practitioners, business groups and government officials from the three NAFTA countries to examine and evaluate cross-border trade challenges to the Arizona business community. Canada and Mexico are major trading partners with Arizona businesses which face difficult and at times vexing issues across a wide range of cross-border activities. The organizers of this symposium believe that comparing and contrasting government and private sector trade and security challenges on the northern and southern border may offer symposium participants greater insight into how some of these challenges may be resolved. 

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Conference Documents Archive

Summary Documents:

• Trilateral Border Issues Symposium - Executive Summary
• Trilateral Border Issues Symposium - Session Notes

Speakers' Papers:

• Beating the Odds: Achieving North American Economic Paramountcy
  by Thomas d'Aquino
• Needed: Infrastructure Resilience Strategies for Major Land Crossings
  by Donald Alper
• Homeland and Border Security Programs are Roadblocks to U.S. and North American Competitiveness
  by Earl H. Fry
• Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism: A Way to Ensure Efficient Trade Flows While Enhancing Border Security
  by Leslie Alan Glick, Esq
• Dramatic Initiatives Needed to Promote Further Bilateral Integration
  by Steven Globerman
• Cross-Border and North American Cooperation on Border and Trans-Border Infrastructure
  by Geoffrey Hale
• Managing Trade and the Economic Impact: Provocative Ideas for 2030
  by Gary Clyde Hufbauer
• Setting The Stage – The Issues
  by Roberta S. Jacobson
• Measuring Success
  by Michael Kergin
• The State of Trade, Competitiveness and Economic Well-Being in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
  by Erik Lee and Christopher E. Wilson
• Border Security Issue
  by David Moloney
• The Mexico-U.S. Line: Is Shared Responsibility Possible?
  by Isidro Morales
• Border and Regulatory Reform: Starting at Street Level
  by Colin Robertson
• North American Border Processes and Metrics
  by Mariko Silver
• Agreeing on Metrics of "Border Security": A Political Pipe Dream
  by Damien Simmoneau
• Setting the Stage - Strategies for the Northern and Southern Borders
  by Duncan Wood 

Gallery 

		Ambassador Gary Doer, Ambassador of Canada to the US
		Ambassador David Jacobson, Ambassador of the US to Canada (left), and Ambassador Gary Doer, Ambassador of Canada to the US (right)
		Ambassador David Jacobson, Ambassador of the US to Canada (left), and Ambassador Gary Doer, Ambassador of Canada to the US (right)
		Michael Kergin (left), former Ambassador to the US and current Senior Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP and Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa chats with Duncan Wood (right), Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
		Simon Rosenberg (left), President, New Policy Institute, chats with Erik Lee (right), Associate Director, North American Center for Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
		Ambassador Gary Doer, Ambassador of Canada to the US, and Colin Robertson, Vice-President of the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute and Senior Strategic Advisor with McKenna Long and Aldridge
		Chris Sands, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
		David Bercuson (right), Program Director, Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute and Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary with D. Rick Van Schoik (left), Director, North American Center for Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
		Diana Villiers Negroponte, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
		Thomas D’Aquino (left, standing), Canada Co-Chair, North American Forum and CEO, Intercounsel Ltd chats with Michael Kergin (middle, sitting), former Canadian Ambassador to the US and current Senior Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP and Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa) and Earl Fry (right, sitting), Professor, Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University
		David Bercuson, Director of Programs, Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute and Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary
		Colin Robertson, Vice-President, Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute and Senior Strategic Advisor, McKenna Long and Aldridge
		Ambassador Gary Doer, Ambassador of Canada to the US
		Ambassador Gary Doer, Ambassador of Canada to the US
		Earl Fry (right foreground), Professor, Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University, Michael Kergin (right middle), former Ambassador to the US and current Senior Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP and Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, and Thomas D’Aquino (right back), Canada Co-Chair, North American Forum and CEO, Intercounsel Ltd
		Ambassador David Jacobson, Ambassador of the US to Canada
		Colin Robertson (left), Vice-President of the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute and Senior Strategic Advisor with McKenna Long and Aldridge, Ambassador David Jacobson (middle), Ambassador of the US to Canada, and Ambassador Gary Doer (right), Ambassador of Canada to the US
		Ambassador David Jacobson (left), Ambassador of the US to Canada, and Ambassador Gary Doer (right), Ambassador of Canada to the US
		Ambassador David Jacobson, Ambassador of the US to Canada
		Diana Villiers Negroponte, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
		Steve Globerman (standing with mic), Kaiser Professor of International Business and Director of the Center for International Business at Western Washington University
		Conference Attendees
		D. Rick van Schoik, Director, North American Center for Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
		John Maisto, Former Ambassador and Member of the Board, North American Center for Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
		David Fransen, Counsul General of Canada to Los Angeles
		Thomas D’Aquino (right), Canada Co-Chair, North American Forum and CEO, Intercounsel Ltd and Roberta Jacobson (left), Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, US Department of State
		Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, US Department of State