Current Issues

As part of its mandate, the North American Forum on Integration organizes annual conferences to focus the attention of decision-makers and the public to challenges at hand.

Its first conference entitled “Beyond Free Trade: Strengthening North America” was held on March 27 and 28 2003 in Montreal, and brought together 280 persons from the political, business and trade union sectors as well as academics, from the three NAFTA countries. For two days, the participants have discussed many issues related to North American integration. A main focus was brought upon the creation of a North American Investment Fund.

For its second annual conference entitled “Forging North American Energy Security”, the issues related to oil, gas and electricity in our region will be at the center of the discussions. The event will take place on April 1st and 2nd 2004 in Monterrey, with the collaboration of the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.

Some background resources documents are available in each section, to address many specific aspects related to the conferences organized by NAFI.