Section VI: General Observations

In the interests of promotion of transparency, as well as expanded public education and awareness of labor rights under the NAALC as well as domestic law, each NAALC organ should attempt to develop and expand its Internet website as a vehicle for posting, downloading and broadly disseminating all speeches, presentations, submissions, reports, transcripts of proceedings and other documents generated in the course of NAALC activities.

It should be noted that the NAALC urges but does not require the three Parties to establish their own NACs.⁷⁵ Mexico and the U.S. did so several years ago,⁷⁶ but Canada has formally established its own NAC very recently. Until now, the Canadian NAO has informally relied on a joint labor-management council established for other purposes to fill an equivalent role. Now that all three countries have established NAOs, the U.S. NAC believes it would be fruitful to further explore the possibility of setting up a trinational advisory body or, at the least, occasional joint, trinational meetings of the three national advisory bodies, both to increase the transborder flow of information and to aim toward developing transborder, tripartite consensus among labor and management interests to facilitate the work of the Secretariat and the Commission.

The NAC believes adequate and regular funding of all NAALC activities, at both the NAO and Secretariat levels, to be a sound investment in the future of the regional market and expresses the hope that such funding will continue to be provided by all three governments.