Media Advisory: Security and Prosperity Partnership Ministerial Meeting

2008-02-25

Media Advisory: Security and Prosperity Partnership Ministerial Meeting

For Immediate Release
February 25, 2008

OTTAWA, February 25, 2008 - The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, will meet their Mexican and U.S. counterparts - Secretary of Economy Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño Terrazo, Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff - in Los Cabos, Mexico, on February 27-28, 2008, to discuss the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).

The SPP was launched in 2005 to ensure continued economic prosperity in Canada, the United States and Mexico and to increase the security of citizens in all three countries. Additional information on the SPP is available at www.spp-psp.gc.ca.

Media availability is scheduled to take place at:

Date
February 28, 2008

Time
8:00 a.m. (local time)

Location
Sheraton Hacienda del Mar
Los Cabos, Mexico

Information:

Deirdra McCracken
Press Secretary
Office of the Honourable Jim Prentice
Minister of Industry
613-995-9001

Media Relations
Industry Canada
613-943-2502

Mélisa Leclerc
Director of Communications
Office of the Honourable Stockwell Day
Minister of Public Safety
613-991-2863

Media Relations
Public Safety Canada
613-991-0657