Building Cross-Border Links: A Compendium of Canada-US Government Collaboration CSPS Action-Research Roundtable on Managing Canada-US Relations Chaired by Louis Ranger Edited by Dieudonné Mouafo Nadia Ponce Morales Jeff Heynen For more information or copies, please contact the Research and University Relations Group of the Canada School of Public Service. 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No. SC103-6/2004E-HTML ISBN 0-662-38187-4 Publishing and printing cost per unit: $25.00 (CDN) Building Cross-Border Links: A Compendium of Canada-US Government Collaboration CSPS Action-Research Roundtable on Managing Canada-US Relations Chaired by Louis Ranger Edited by Dieudonné Mouafo Nadia Ponce Morales Jeff Heynen Table Of Contents Introduction . 3 Acknowledgments . 5 Part 1: Federal Departments and Agencies . 7 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada . 8 Bank of Canada . 13 Canada Border Services Agency . 17 Canadian Food Inspection Agency . 21 Canadian Space Agency . 26 Citizenship and Immigration Canada . 31 Competition Bureau . 35 Environment Canada . 40 Finance Canada . 50 Fisheries and Oceans Canada . 55 Foreign Affairs Canada . 62 Health Canada . 69 Industry Canada . 77 International Joint Commission . 83 International Trade Canada . 86 Justice Canada . 91 NAFTA Secretariat . 95 National Defence . 98 National Energy Board . 104 Natural Resources Canada . 107 Parks Canada . 113 Privy Council Office . 116 Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (Portfolio) . 118 Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (Emergency Management and National Security Branch) . 123 Royal Canadian Mounted Police . 128 Standards Council of Canada . 134 Statistics Canada . 139 Transport Canada . 145 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Part 2: Provincial and Territorial Governments . 155 Alberta . 156 British Columbia . 162 Manitoba . 166 New Brunswick . 171 Newfoundland and Labrador . 177 Northwest Territories . 180 Nova Scotia . 184 Nunavut . 189 Ontario . 192 Prince Edward Island . 199 Quebec . 204 Saskatchewan . 208 Yukon . 213 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Context This Compendium is one of two final documents produced by the 2003-04 Action-Research Roundtable on Managing Canada-US Relations, organized by the Canada School of Public Service. It serves as a companion publication to Advancing Canadian Interests in the United States: A Practical Guide for Canadian Public Officials, which is intended to provide a more prescriptive analysis to public servants and legisla- tors who interact regularly with US counterparts. By contrast, this Compendium provides a more descriptive overview of the main channels of collaboration between Canadian governments (at the federal and provincial levels) and their US counterparts. The rationale behind the creation of this Compendium of bilateral linkages arises from the need to comprehend more fully the increased number of government actors now involved in the bilateral relation- ship. Practitioners of the relationship – in embassies and missions, in line departments, in central agencies – have intuitively been aware of the wide variety of contacts. Yet few have truly appreciated their scope and variety. Indeed, the Roundtable is not aware of any recent effort to take stock of the multiple channels of bilateral co-operation at the federal and provincial levels.1 Moreover, recent debates over the future of Canada-US relations and North American integration have focussed on bi- and trilateral institutions. Some academics have called for new and more robust interna- tional institutions2 while others have emphasized the utility of working within existing institutional arrangements given their inherent flexibility.3 Notwithstanding these differing perspectives, few theorists contest the need to better understand and evaluate our existing channels of collaboration before designing new institutional arrangements. Methodology In August and September 2003, the Roundtable sent out a survey to the deputy heads of approximately 70 Canadian federal departments and agencies asking their organizations to compile a list of formal institutions, working groups or other types of collaboration in place with US government officials. A similar survey was sent to the head of the public service or cabinet secretary within all provincial and territorial governments. After summarizing the material received from federal, provincial and territorial governments, the Roundtable sent draft summaries to each organization for their review and updating in April and May 2004. This proved critical at the federal government level, given the significant machinery-of-government changes that took place in December 2003. In the case of the federal government, summaries.