Research


Environmental Collaboration: Lessons Learned About Cross-Boundary Collaborations

IBM Center for the Business of Government
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The Emergence of Cross-Border Regions between Canada and the United States

Policy Research Initiative
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The Next Economy: Economic Recovery and Transformation in the Great Lakes Region

Brookings
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Preliminary Feasibility of Ecological Separation of the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes to Prevent the Transfer of Aquatic Invasive Species

Great Lakes Fisheries Commission
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The Vital Connection: Reclaiming Great Lakes Economic Leadership in the Bi-National US-Canadian Region

Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings
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The Next Generation Manufacturing Study:
Overview and Findings

Great Lakes Manufacturing Council
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Effective Collaboration Processes on Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy: The Boulder Principles

Council of Great Lakes Industries
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Comments Regarding Governance issues as input to the binational negotiations to amend the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA)

Council of Great Lakes Industries
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The New ‘Cluster Moment’: How Regional Innovation Clusters can Foster the Next Economy

Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings
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Higher Education and Innovation:
The Canada-US Story

Policy Options
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Taking the Canada-US Partnership
to the Next Level

Policy Options
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Turning up the Heat: How Venture Capital Can Help Fuel the Economic Transformation of the Great Lakes Region

Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings
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At the Shoreline: A Mayors’ Collaborative Action Plan to Protect the Great Lakes

Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
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Toward a New Frontier Improving
the U.S.-Canadian Border

Canadian International Council
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Canada’s Agriculture and Food Trade Policy: Leveraging Canada’s Agri-Food Successes and Moving beyond the Status Quo

George Morris Centre
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Preparing for Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region

Michigan Sea Grant
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  • Our continued pledge is to conserve and protect our vital water resources for our children and for future generation. Jean Charest, Premier ministre du Québec

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  • Water is a natural resource that is an essential component of all life on Earth and for which there is no substitute. Issues related to water in the region of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River are very important for Québec. Jean Charest, Premier ministre du Québec

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  • When one of us succeeds, we all benefit because we are vitally connected to one another. Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario

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  • Premiers McGuinty and Charest announced they will work towards a forum on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence region to take place in Spring 2011. Joint Ontario-Quebec Cabinet Meeting, June 2010

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  • The Great Lakes have helped build great communities. Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario

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