"The decision by George W. Bush to hold the SPP meeting in New Orleans had always been particularly insensitive and arrogant. Three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans remains a devastated community with some 200,000 former residents still unable to return home."

--Blair Redlin, researcher with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, in SPP/NAFTA boosters on the defensive in New Orleans

The April 22 meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership was attended by President Bush, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Read their joint statement about the meeting here.