Water is on the Discussion table at the SPP.
Date: Friday, April 13 2007
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Gulp! Canada's water on the table in talks with parched U.S., Mexico
To draft 'blueprint' on economic integration
KELLY PATTERSON, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, April 13, 2007
Canadian water is on the table at trilateral talks among politicians, business people and academics from Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Discussion of "water transfers" and diversions is to take place during a series of closed-door conferences, according to an outline for the North American Future 2025 Project.
The project is a trilateral effort to draft a "blueprint" on economic integration for the governments of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. It was launched by the three nations in March 2006 to help guide the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a bid to further integrate everything from environmental rules to security protocols and border controls.
A draft report is to be submitted to the three heads of state at a partnership summit in Alberta in August.
"It's no secret that the U.S. is going to need water," said project director Armand Peschard-Sverdrup.
"It's no secret that Canada is going to have an overabundance of water. At the end of the day, there may have to be arrangements."
The project is spearheaded by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a powerful Washington think tank, in partnership with the Conference Board of Canada, a not-for-profit group that studies economic trends, and CIDE, a Mexican policy institute.
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