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Experts: CUSMA trade talks

Published: 29 June 2026

The Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade comes up for review as of July 1. These ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï experts can provide comment.

, PhD candidate and course lecturer, Department of Political Science, can speak about:

  • Canadian and American attitudes toward CUSMA, trade and Canada–U.S. economic integration;
  • the way political leaders, governments and other policy voices in Canada and the United States talk about trade agreements, tariffs, economic security;
  • North American co-operation, and how that can influence public debate.

Diya.jiang [at] mail.mcgill.ca (English, French)
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Preetika Joshi, Assistant Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, can speak about:

  • Cross-border and corporate tax dimensions of CUSMA, including transfer pricing and the tax consequences of integrated North American supply chains;
  • Tariffs, rules of origin and trade-policy mechanics, and what's at stake for Canadian businesses as terms are renegotiated;
  • Interaction of trade and tax policy.

Preetika.joshi [at] mcgill.ca (·¡²Ô²µ±ô¾±²õ³ó)
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Julian Karaguesian, course lecturer, Department of Economics, can speak about:

  • the original NAFTA agreement and its successor, the CUSMA agreement;
  • the geopolitical implications, including the Chinese and Indian angles;
  • issues relating to Canada’s economic model, the U.S. model and to North American and global integration;
  • the role of global governance in shaping the future rules-based international order.

Julian.karaguesian [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)

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Michael McAdoo, course lecturer, Max Bell School of Public Policy, has spent more than 25 years working at the nexus of corporate strategy, public policy and international geopolitics before serving as the executive assistant to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. He has lived and worked in the United States and Mexico, as well as Canada, and has managed a Mexican factory with 225 unionized employees.

michael.mcadoo [at] mcgill.ca (English)

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