Canada Liberal Justin Trudeau Proposes Lifting Mexican Visa Requirement Trinh Theresa Do - CBC News
go to original June 23, 2015

Trudeau slams Harper for handling of Canada-U.S. relations (News Plus)

A Liberal government would lift the Mexican visa requirement, and host a new trilateral summit with Mexico and the U.S. to renew relations with Canada's North American neighbors that have worsened over the past decade, said party leader Justin Trudeau.

Trudeau, fresh from announcing his vision for electoral reform should the Liberal Party assume government in the election later this year, is taking his first serious foray into the realm of foreign policy, with a keynote speech delivered at a Canada 2020 event in Ottawa on Monday.

"Mexico is now an equal or greater strategic preoccupation in Washington than Canada. This basic fact cannot be wished away," he said in prepared remarks.

"As with the United States, [Prime Minister Stephen] Harper's approach to relations with Mexico has been belligerent and borderline churlish."

The federal government requires Mexican visitors to Canada to have a visa, a controversial requirement put in place in 2009 to curb bogus asylum claims, and that has strained relations between the countries.

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