Canada-Mexico relations

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Canada-Mexico relations

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Canada-Mexico relations are relations between Canada and the United Mexican States.

[edit] History

Formal relations did not begin until 1944, at the height of the Second World War, which both countries participated in on the Allied side. Prior to the negotiations around the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) economic and political ties between Mexico and Canada were "weak."^[1] Since NAFTA has come into force, the two countries have become much more important to each other, and often collaborate when dealing with the United States of America.

[edit] NAFTA and since

NAFTA Initialing Ceremony, October 1992. From left to right (standing) President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President George H. W. Bush, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. (Seated) Jaime Serra Puche, Carla Hills, Michael Wilson.

Canada had just signed a free trade agreement with the United States in 1988 when the US under George H. W. Bush began to negitiate another pact with Mexico under Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The Canadian government under Brian Mulroney feared that the advantages Canada had through the Canada-US FTA would be undermined, and asked to become a party to the US-Mexican talks.^[1] The result was that NAFTA replaced the previous Canada-US FTA.

Relations between the two government are particularly strong at this moment. In October 2006, then president-elect Felipe Calderón visited Ottawa, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attended the inauguration of the Mexican President. Both leaders are pro-market conservatives, Calderón of the National Action Party and Harper of the Conservative Party.

[edit] See also

• Embassy of Mexico in Ottawa
• Canada-Latin America relations

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