Mexico and Canada, pushed into a three-nation trade deal by their powerful neighbor in between, have for decades viewed each other with a mix of disinterest and distrust.
Now, their leaders, driven by President Trump’s extensive new tariffs and threats to their countries’ sovereignty, are talking about ways to team up.
“It’s very much an all-hands-on-deck approach to ensure that we are kick-starting” the relationship, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, Anita Anand, told reporters this month, alongside Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
“It sends a very strong signal when you have the foreign minister of a country and the finance minister come,” Mr. Champagne added. “I think that message is understood loud and clear in Mexico City.”
This month, the two Canadian officials led a delegation there to meet with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and prepare for a fall visit by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada. The encounter was largely seen as a chance to reset the relationship and compare notes for dealing with an increasingly aggressive Trump administration.
“What we have in common right now is a nefarious neighbor,” said Arturo Santa-Cruz, an expert on North American relations at the University of Guadalajara. “It makes a lot of sense that we collaborate.”
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