Proportionality clause in NAFTA. The energy proportionality clause is a major concern for Canadian sovereignty and potentially the economy moving forward into a world of renewable resources. This clause requires Canada to maintain its share of energy exports (around 60%) to the US, regardless of Canadian energy supplies. In essence, the energy proportionality clause requires Canada to export energy to the US even when they are experiencing shortages. No other free trade agreement has a requirement to export, and even Mexico does not have a similar requirement. This is not only controversial because of the negative effects on Canadian energy companies and customers, but it also has the potential for harming the environment. Because Canada is required to export a certain amount of energy, it cannot reduce exports in order to conserve oil. In addition, the Canadian energy supply is shrinking, which makes the renegotiation or elimination of the energy proportionality clause absolutely necessary. This talks about how bad the clause is for us – dig deeper into this as to why its bad, obligation to supply the states, collapse of our sovereignty .An in depth account. Proposal Move onto talk about your proposal to the Canadian government as a solid proposal with alternatives. – Hardball: Remove the clause completely and regaining Canadian .. this will either work immaculately or trump will counter offer with something we want/need. Sovereignty is a must. Softball: An alternative could be to renegotiate the amount obligated to supply the states from 60% to maybe a consideration of 20% 1) Make an argument for the proportionality clause to be removed bad thing for the Canadian economy… and essentially how we can alter it/re-negotiate it in the NAFTA accord. 2) Statistics and graphs to explain the story – exports and imports of oil between the US and Canada. Costs of transportation to other nations and use this as an argument as to why we should keep our ability to sell to other nations. We have to keep 60% (look into this) total production of canadain energy/oil The amount we export to the US and whatever that amount is in percentage form, subtract that amount from the 60% and use this as an argument as to why we don’t need to keep our obligation so high. How much we actually need to supply based on the American usage of oil. Find average imports of oil to us from Canada, this number could be the % proposal.