1. Office of the Prime Minister, Canada, “The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” (March 23, 2005),http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news.asp?id=443].Accessed October 20, 2005
2. The White House, “Security Agenda: Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,”http://www.spp.gov/spp/security_agenda/index.asp?dName=security-agenda.Accessed October 20, 2005
3. The White House, “Prosperity Agenda: Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,”http://www.spp.gov/spp/prosperity-agenda/index.asp?dName=prosperity-agenda.Accessed October 20, 2005
4. Each Canadian national, on average, consumes $294 worth of U.S. agricultural products each year, and Canada sends more than half of its agricultural exports to the U.S. See Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, “The Trading Relationship Between Canada and the United States,” Government of Canada poster. Agriculture, food safety, and food security are significant dimensions of the North American, and certainly U.S.Canadian, experience. Agri-food issues, in some way, create unique common grounds for bilateral cooperation, and differ from some high-politics issue areas, such as migration
5. Helen V. Milner,Interests, Institutions, and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)