This evening’s summit culminates hours of discussion between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris; and Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday electric-vehicle incentives that favour U.S. manufacturing could become the “dominant issue” in U.S.-Canada relations, but Biden was non-committal this afternoon on whether a carve-out for Canada was possible before the bill is finalized. (The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press)

Talking point: Pressure is building as a vote on the bill containing the consumer EV incentives—which Democrats are pushing as the pandemic recovery’s New Deal—could be called at any time today. But Canada’s auto industry will have to compete with a busy summit agenda likely to cover everything from Enbridge’s Line 5 to human rights in Latin America, violence against Indigenous women and girls, border policies, vaccine agreements, forced labour, Mexican electricity programs, and more. Getting EVs on the docket is high-stakes, however: Global Automakers of Canada president David Adams told The Logic pending Build Back Better bill’s provisions in the U.S. were “a black cloud over Canada as an investment jurisdiction in not only the long term, but in the near term,” and pose an existential threat to the industry.