Mutual Recognition in Canadian Regulatory Context

In the future, hegemony will be premised decreasingly upon conventional force and increasingly upon economic ascendancy, as enabled by the optimal trade relationships of an ever-more globalized world.

    This Fulbright-funded research investigates the possibilities of the trade liberalization paradigm - mutual recognition - in the remarkably opportune and compelling Canadian regulatory context.  Given the current economic decline, the research holds unique promise for internal and external regulatory obstacles.  By its contagious character, it also proffers much as a strategic model to liberalize trade elsewhere and thereby promote the greater interchange of nations, per the Fulbright ideal. 

     The research will require a specific investigation of the Canadian culture as the basis of understanding, with an eye to reform, the nation’s curiously strong provincial regulatory system, which currently threatens stalled (Canada/EU), emerging (Canada/US MRA), and future (FTAA) external initiatives.