Mexico City and Canada West Foundation

Canada West Foundation: The prime minister and his Mexican counterpart, President Enrique Pe a Nieto, held one-on-one meetings at the National Palace in Mexico City on Tuesday during Harpers first official visit to the country. Over lunch, the two were expected to discuss ways they could repair the rift in their relationship, according to Huffington Post. Carlo Dade, the director of the Centre for Trade Investment Policy at the Canada West Foundation, said Mexico has been trying to reach out to Canada for two or three years to convince officials of the advantages of working together and Will a few days in Mexico City be enough time for Stephen Harper to thaw years of frosty relations between Canada and Mexico? Relations between Canada and Mexico soured in 2009 after Ottawa slapped a visa requirement on Mexican visitors. Ottawa said the visas were needed to deal with thousands of bogus asylum claims. But the countrys residents and its business leaders say they have felt Ottawas cold shoulder ever since. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.