What's Expected During Enrique Pena Nieto's Visit to Leaders' Summit in Canada The Canadian Press
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President Barack Obama, center, walks with Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, as they arrive for a group photo with leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila, Philippines. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Update: Amnesty International Slams Quebec’s Premier Couillard on Mexican Human Rights Comment (The Canadian Press )

Mexico’s president arrives in Canada today to begin three days of carefully choreographed North American leader summitry.

Enrique Pena Nieto is heading to Quebec City first before dining with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Toronto and then hitting the national capital on Tuesday for an official state visit.

The Mexican president will then join Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama for Wednesday’s North American Leaders Summit in Ottawa, commonly known as the Three Amigos.

Last year’s trilateral summit was cancelled amid the Canada-U.S. dispute over the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and an ongoing Canada-Mexico fight over visa requirements.

Keystone XL has since been formally rejected by the Obama administration, while Canada’s visa requirement for visiting Mexicans remains an irritant that sources say won’t likely be fully resolved this week.

However Trudeau and Pena Nieto will be looking for a public display of Canada-Mexico co-operation — likely centring on climate action — as a counterpoint to the trade protectionism and anti-immigrant sentiment that has marked this year’s U.S. presidential race.

Experts say it will be in Obama’s interest, as well, to broaden the North American relationship in hopes off cementing his environmental policy legacy and insulating the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA, from political mischief.

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