Who's Behind the CFR's Merger Plan?

The plan to merge the U.S. with Canada and Mexico was developed by the Task Force on the Future of North America, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales (COMEXI).

CCCE’s membership consists of the chief executives of 150 leading Canadian corporations, and was a major influence in the creation and adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

COMEXI is a corporate-funded Latin analogue of the Council on Foreign Relations, and describes itself as a non-government“ multidisciplinary organization committed to fostering sophisticated, broadly inclusive political discourse and analysis...”

Members of the CFR task force include former Canadian Deputy Prime MInister John P. Manley; former Mexican Finance Minister Pedro Aspe; former Governor of Massachusetts William Weld; CCCE Chief Executive Thomas d’Aquino; COMEXI President Andres Rozental; Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University Robert A. Pastor; and Associate Professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chappell H. Lawson.