9:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

More trade takes place between Canada and the United States than any two countries on the planet. Canada is the biggest foreign supplier of oil, petroleum products and natural gas to the U.S. Dr. Kasoff focuses on forces leading up to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1989, which became the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 when Mexico joined. This talk describes key trade and investment features and assesses how NAFTA has performed.

Mark Kasoff is professor emeritus of Canadian studies and economics at Bowling Green State University, where he founded BGSU’s Canadian Studies Program in 1991. Along with Patrick James, Dr. Kasoff is co-editor of Canadian Studies in the New Millennium (University of Toronto Press, 2008), the most widely used Canadian Studies textbook. Dr. Kasoff, who was editor of The American Review of Canadian Studies from 2002-06, has published numerous articles and book chapters on Canadian international trade and direct investment.