Problem
Read: Richard Sanders, 'North America: Its Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise Again,' Wilson Center Insights and Analysis, November 10, 2021:
Should Canada, Mexico and the United States build on the existing trilateral free trade-based regional organisation and form a "North American Union" with similar features as the European Union with a shared currency, free movement of labour and right of residence in any member state, governing institutions such as an elected legislature, common citizenship, a Schengen-style shared external border, and, a coordinated foreign and defence policy? What would be the advantages? What might be the disadvantages? Has this idea ever got the slightest chance of coming to fruition?