This wide-ranging discussion will consider the unique, enduring, and powerful partnership between Canada and the U.S. and the state of the political and economic relationship between the two countries in an age of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation.

Stéphane Lessard joined Global Affairs Canada at the Consulate General of Canada in August 2016. As Canada’s Consul General in Denver, Lessard oversees a team of seventeen people who work within Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming to strengthen trade and economic ties; enhance political, academic and cultural links; and assist Canadians visiting or living in the five-state U.S. Mountain West region.