Economic and political relations between Canada and the United States, our most important foreign relationship, have worsened since the Fraser Institute’s previous report on the state of Canada-US relations, Skating on Thin Ice (Moens, 2010). Canadian merchandise exports to the United States...

Key findings:• After ten years of post-9/11 border innovations, the costs associated with border crossing have not significantly decreased while government spending on border security has markedly increased. In order to develop performance-based and cost-effective border management policies,...

In the United States, Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling (MCOOL) was brought into force in 2008. Because of the bill, American retailers must inform consumers about the country of origin of various classes of meat products including muscle cuts of beef, pork, and lamb, as well as chicken, fish...

The United States and Canada are partners in trade, national security, and environmental management. The political state of affairs between Canada and the United States is a constant source of concern for Canadians whose prosperity and security to a large extent depend on this relationship. From...

Mutual trade and investment as well as numerous shared political, security, and defense interests make Canada's relationship with the United States a uniquely large and important matter in Canadian public policy. While the state of this relationship and the quality of its management are under...