1. Efforts at deepening the cross-border relationship likely will be driven by political, bureaucratic, and/or economic elites. Public opinion is important in the overall success of such elite strategies to the degree that it is more or less permissive of, or resistant to, such initiatives
2. As outlined more fully below, the paper focuses, as a result of the nature of the relationship between social policy and bilateral relations, on the prospects for deepening the bilateral relationship rather than the day to day management of relations
3. Allan Gotlieb, “Protecting Canada's Eggs in the US Basket,”25, no. 9 (October 2004): 7; David Dodge, “Economic Integration in North America,” Couchiching Conference, 2003.www.bankofcanada.ca/en/speeches/2003/sp03-11.htm;
4. George Haynal, “The Next Plateau in North America: What's the Big Idea?”, June-July 2004
5. For a discussion, see Gerard W. Boychuk, “Redistribution, Social Protection and North American Linkages: Social Policy Distinctiveness under Increased Labour Mobility,” in Richard G. Harris and Thomas Lemieux, ed.Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, forthcoming