The Relationship
| Published date | 01 June 2005 |
| Author | Paul Cellucci |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200506000219 |
| Date | 01 June 2005 |
| Subject Matter | Management & Institutions |
Paul Cellucci
The
relationship
A US perspective
I
want to talk about shared values, and shared goals, and I also want to talk
about the global context of much of what Canada and the United States do
together. I am not one of those people who believe these two countries are
diverging.
The
fact
of the matter is that there are more differences within each
country than there are between our two countries, and we do have funda-
mental goals that we share in this hemisphere and around the globe and we
do share fundamental values. Energy is one thing that we're working
close-
ly
on. We get more oil from Canada than we get from Saudi Arabia, and we
know that the potential in the oil sands is quite vast. Gas is another big
export from Canada to the United
States,
natural gas. And even as we work
to get the Alaska
Slope
gas and the Mackenzie
Valley
gas, I think we all real-
ize
that the demand for gas in North America will probably even outstrip
those supplies. What has been a continental market and a continental price
will
soon become a global price, so what happens in the fields of Nigeria
will
have an impact on the price of natural gas in North America. We know
that from oil: even though Canada is an oil-producing country, the price of
that oil is determined by the world market. So we will continue to work
together to make sure we have the energy to keep the economies of Canada,
Paul Cellucci
was the US
ambassador
to
Canada
from
2001
through March
2005.
I
International
Journal
|
Spring
2005
| 509 |
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